(dramatic music) - Shalom, Torah fans. This is a day I've been waiting
for in nearly two decades. What we are going to
present to you tonight, I have been waiting for a long time since Nehemia came out
with his original work on Shem Tov's Hebrew Mathew
and we toured the United States over a two-month period of time with Raiders of the Lost Book: Discoveries in the Ancient Hebrew Texts of the Gospel of Matthew. And Nehemia had, at
that time, had uncovered several texts of the Hebrew Matthew that had been not been
known, had been hidden away in the archives that Jewish scribes for untold number of years
and because of this research, we were able to solve problems
that were unintelligible in the Greek text of the Gospel of Matthew and also in the English text. And so these discoveries in
the Hebrew text of Matthew gave us insights into the Gospels that had eluded scholars for generations. Now, Nehemia is going to bring forth some of the other gospels that he has now found
in the Hebrew language. We have Nehemia's book, The Greek Jesus Versus The Hebrew Yeshua. This is where he lays out the detail of solving the problem of Matthew 23, and ladies and gentlemen, I
suggest that you get these and you study them because
it's gonna lay the groundwork of what now we're able to lay
out after all these years, you are going to be the first
ones to see it and tonight, I'm going to be the first one to see some of these manuscripts
for the first time myself. Nehemia, it's good to have you back. - Great to be back. - And I am looking forward to what is happening tonight
on Shabbat Night Live. - Well, so I mean this is
what we've been waiting several weeks for, Michael. I'm really excited about this. So I told the people last week
about the Vatican junk box. And it really came out of that research I was doing with Matthew 23. I had found these manuscripts
of Hebrew Matthew. George Howard found
nine and I had found 14 and I said there's got to be more. And it turned out, by the
time we did that video, I believe we had 26 and
later, I found two more but the process was I
would get these microfilms and I would put them on
the reader, analog reader and I'm swirling, I'm looking through them and one of these microfilms turned out it was in the Vatican and
it said miscellaneous, and I said, well that's interesting. Let's see what's miscellaneous. And as I'm looking through, I'm realizing this is a junk box. They have a loose page. - What do you mean by junk box? - Well, I was once told by a mechanic when you put a car back together and you're left with three extra bolts, you just throw them in the junk box. So this is what happened in the Vatican. Somebody was reading a
manuscript, maybe 10 manuscripts, they put him back in
the shelf and they'd see on the on the table, there
was an extra page left there. And well, what do we do with this? We don't know where it goes. We put it in the junk box and this-- - And these are ancient
manuscripts that pages do come out. - Oh, all the time. - And don't know what to with it. - Oh, they open up a book
nobody's opened up for 200 years and there's worms in there eating the book and all kinds of things
are happening, right? And there's mold, all kinds of problems you're having with manuscripts. And so they would put these
pages in the junk box. So I'm looking at this microfilm at the National Library of Israel and it's a microfilm of a junk box. Now, back then, I only
had it black and white. What's new and why I'm able
to share this now publicly is now I've got the
high-resolution color images because of this worldwide project of digitizing Hebrew manuscripts. And I'm gonna show people
here for the first time some of the other pages from the junk box. So here, for example, we have
a page from the junk box. And you can see it says
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. The Apostolic Library of the Vatican. And this is some page of some
document that was torn out, fell out of a book or
was torn out of a book and it's some sort of
cabalistic work or something. - [Michael] Yeah, it's got a star. - Yeah, it's got some
weird drawings on it. It's some kind of cabalistic document. Here's another page from
some other book completely. It's actually an early printed book and this is a book of
how to teach children. It's got the alphabet with
all the different combinations of the vowels and there's a picture here of the very simple wood etching. They call these where the
teacher has spare the rod, spoil the child that's expressing. And it talks here about the young boy and it's literally a children's book that fell out of some
book, early book they had or early printed book,
put it in the junk box. - Yeah, so it's Hebrew. So it's not anything that concerns them. Just throwing the Hebrew-- - Well, even it concerns them, they don't know what to do with it, right? 'Cause they had up until
the last decade or so, the Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican had never been cataloged. It was scholars from the
National Library of Israel that went to the library for
the first time and cataloged it from the Institute of
Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts. Nobody had ever cataloged it because they couldn't read Hebrew. Right, occasionally they'd
look at a book here, a book there, they had
some idea what was there but they didn't have a systematic idea. Here's another page which
is from a book in German. I don't even know if it's doing in there. If it's even a Jewish book. This was just a junk box
where they put stuff. Most of them are Hebrew books. And as I'm looking through the junk box, I'm seeing hundreds of pages
from many different books and all of a sudden, I come across a page and I look at this and
I say, wait a minute. That's a gospel in Hebrew. And first, I found Luke and
there were three pages of Luke and then I found a single
page from the Gospel of John. Can I read that to the
people what it says? - Please do.
- People, this is the first time this is being shown publicly to the world. I don't know where this came from other than that it's from the Vatican, where the Vatican got
it from, I don't know. What's really cool is at
the bottom of the page-- - [Michael] And it's just one page. - It's just one page from John. At the bottom of the page,
you have what they call a hanging word. It's a single word without vowels that is the first word from the next page. - And without the vowels, that tells you that it continues onto the next page. - Oh yeah, so what they would do is they put the first
word of the next page at the bottom of the previous page. So you turn the page and what to look for and if the page is in American order, that's very helpful, of course. So we know there was another
page, we just don't have it. So let me read you for the first time from the Gospel of John
in the Vatican Library, from the junk box of the Vatican Library. I mean this truly is a treasure, right? I mean there's movies
about things like this like American Treasure
and I hate to say it, but The Da Vinci Code
where there's some treasure somewhere we're gonna find
and I found it in a microfilm of the junk box in the Vatican and this has never been
talked about publicly as far as I know. And certainly, when I found it, nobody knew about this
around 17 years ago or so. Here's what it says. I'll read it in Hebrew
and then translate it. (speaking in foreign language) The holy gospel of Yeshua, the Messiah according to Yochanan. (speaking in foreign language) Chapter one. (speaking in foreign language) In the beginning was the word, the dewar. And the word was next to Elohim. Now, that word next to is the Hebrew word (speaking
in foreign language). You might be able to
translate that as with. I think it's a bit of stretch-- - [Michael] With as in King James? - Right, with and the word was with God. Here it's (speaking in foreign
language) which is next to. And I saw that, I'm like
that's really interesting. Well, you have this verse
in the New Testament. It's in Ephesians 1:20, which he worked in Christ which
he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right
hand in the heavenly places. - Ah, that's very close to. - I gotta wonder. - Next to. - It's literally next to, right? At the right hand. Hebrews 8:1, now, this is the main point of the things we are saying. We have such a high priest who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens. So I got a wonder if
that's what's going on in this Hebrew edition of
this Hebrew text of John that I've discovered in the Vatican. And it goes on and it says-- - It goes back to the Psalms. Seated at my right hand until I make thy enemies a footstool.
- Psalm 1:10. Okay, wow. So, in the beginning, okay, we read that. (speaking in foreign language) This was in the beginning next to Elohim. Of course, Elohim was
the Hebrew word for God. It says (speaking in foreign language). All things were made through him. And without him, nothing
was made from all that was. (speaking in foreign language) In him was life. (speaking in foreign language) And life was the light of men. (speaking in foreign language) And the light was shining
forth in the darkness and the darkness could not
contain it meaning enlightenment. (speaking in foreign language) And there was a certain man sent from God and his name was Yochanan,
that's Hebrew for John. And it goes on and it says
(speaking in foreign language). This one came in testimony to
testify concerning the light in order that they would believe
everything because of him. (speaking in foreign language) He was not the light but only testifying concerning the light, meaning John. (speaking in foreign language) It was true light to
shed light on every man who enters into this world. (speaking in foreign language) He was in the world and the
world was made through him. (speaking in foreign language) And the world did not recognize him. (speaking in foreign language) He came to his true homeland or birthplace and the children of his
house did not accept him. (speaking in foreign language) And all those who accepted
him and believed in his name, he gave dominion that they
would be sons of Elohim. (speaking in foreign language) For they were not born out of blood and not out of the desire of flesh. (speaking in foreign language) Not out of the desire
of men, but from Elohim. I mean this is, and then it ends. What's next? I don't know! - [Michael] The last word on the page. - The last word is that
Elohim which means God or the one God, the true
God and then it ends. And we don't know what's next. And who knows if that's some, I mean think about it. The conspiracy always is
the Vatican's hiding it. No, quite literally the
Vatican was so incompetent, they don't even know what they have. They had no idea, it's
just in the junk box. Now, again, is this the original Hebrew? I don't know. All I know is, I mean
this is what we dreamed of as a scholar, certainly. You dream of finding something like this. The Lost Gospels in the Vatican and here, we have four pages from The Lost Gospels in the Vatican. And it's not that they were
hiding it to be malicious, they just didn't know. Now, I wanna tell you a story, Michael. I heard this when I was
in elementary school. I went to an ultra-orthodox
elementary school in Chicago and we had this man come, he was a rabbi, and he told us how he would go
into the Vatican at the time and they wouldn't allow
him to bring pen and paper but they would allow him
to study the manuscripts. So he would walk in
there into the library, go through all the check,
make sure he's not, of course, he can't bring a camera. And we're talking the 80s, right? He's not bringing a phone,
it was impossible back then. He wasn't allowed to bring pen and paper. He to go in, memorize a line
of one of the manuscripts, run out after about an
hour, write down everything he could remember, go back in again and this man must've had
a photographic memory. That's how he was doing it in the 80s. And now, anybody who's
listening to this program can go to my website, nehemiaswall.com and see the full text and translation. There will be a link there
to the Vatican website where you can see the
original document here. You don't have to believe me. You can see it for yourself. I mean think what a miracle this is. We go from where the
rabbi is sitting there, memorizing the text and he's probably not interested in this text. He's memorizing the manuscript of the mission that they have
there and other documents. And we've now gone to the point where at a click of a button,
you can find these things. It's a miracle, Michael. Michael, this is miracle. - Knowledge is increasing. - Knowledge is increasing. - Running to and fro with our computers at the speed of nanoseconds. - It's incredible, Michael,
what's going on here. Well, now can I read a
little bit from Luke? I don't think live for the whole thing. - Okay, well, let's do this. Everyone, get out a pen,
get out to your Bibles. This is the time that you can
actually mark in your Bibles and bring it right back to the Hebrew. - Okay, I'm not gonna read the whole thing 'cause I see we're, the time is flying. - [Michael] Oh! - [Nehemia] But I'm gonna
read part of it, okay? - [Michael] Okay, all right. (Nehemia speaking in foreign language) - [Nehemia] The holy gospel
or good news of Yeshua, the Messiah. (speaking in foreign language) According to Luke, Luca. - Wow, that's a lot more
full than the King James has. Oh yeah.
- Is it? - Well, that what it says here. - Yeah, beautiful, beautiful. - And people can see it. They see it here now on the screen. For the first time, this
is being shown publicly. - [Michael] King James, the
Gospel according to Luke. - [Nehemia] That's all you got there. - [Michael] Yeah, that's all we got. - Okay, here it is. (speaking in foreign language) By the way, I just got to point out here. The name here is written as Yeshua which is a name that
appears in Nehemiah 8:17 referring to Joshua the son of Nun meaning there's no question
from any serious scholarship about how to pronounce that name, Yeshua, no question whatsoever. And this is how it's documented
in these Hebrew documents that we find in the Vatican
and other Hebrew documents. And this one's with vowels, Michael. That's one of the really cool things. Now, I'm gonna skip over the introduction. People can go to my website,
nehemiaswall.com and see that. If you'll allow me to
start with chapter one. And it came to pass in the days of Herod. I'll read it in Hebrew. (speaking in foreign language) I'm gonna translate up to there. And it came to pass in the
days of Herod, king of Judah. A certain cohen, a priest,
his name was Z'kharyah from the sons of Aviyah. And his wife was from
the children of Aaron and her name was Elisheva. And this is it, Michael. This is the part that when I saw this-- - [Michael] Okay, all right. - In the early 2000s, I
was in the library and I, it was every fiber of my being, I had to fight not to
shout when I saw this. (speaking in foreign language) And they both were righteous. (speaking in foreign language) Before Yehovah. And there in the Hebrew manuscript
of Luke from the Vatican, you can see it here on
your screen, people. There it is. It says (speaking in foreign
language), righteous. (speaking in foreign language) Yehovah. Righteous before Yehovah. And Yehovah has the full vowels, which we now know from over
1,000 Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament. We've seen this in the
Hebrew Revelation Sloane 273 from the British Library. And now we're seeing it
in the Hebrew text of Luke from the New Testament
from the Vatican junk box. Yehovah with the full vowels. That was known to be the
pronunciation of his name. This is incredible. - It is, it is. - Okay, it goes on, and it says-- - This is beautiful. - All right, it goes on. All right, I mean this
is incredible stuff. It says (speaking in
foreign language) Yehovah. And walking in all the statutes
and judgments of Yehovah. - [Michael] Of Yehovah. (Nehemia speaking in foreign language) - Without craftiness which
is really interesting. What do you have there in your English? In your King James? - We're blameless. Yeah, they're blameless. Walking all the ordinances, commandments of Yehovah blameless. - Wow, so that's a
really interesting kind. I mean it's incredible. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because they're cohen. They're from Aaron and they
have so many more things that they have to perform
than the average Israelite and still, they were blameless. - Well, so here, it doesn't
say blameless in Hebrew. It says without craftiness. - Without craftiness. - And what I understand
when I read that in Hebrew is we've got this commandments but there's always ways to
get around the commandments. And this is something the
rabbi's are masters of. So for example, it
talks about in the Torah at every seven year during the shmita, during the sabbatical year that if you're poor
brother owes you money, that that debt is forgiven. So the rabbi's come
along and they say hey, that's a lot of money to pass up on. So they create something
called the prosbul. Prosbul is this concept
in rabbinical Judaism where you write a certain type
of contract and therefore, the debt carries over through
the shmita and survives and the man owes that money
for the rest of his life until he pays it off. So I think that's what it
means, without craftiness. - [Michael] Oh, that's beautiful. - I mean you about legalism. There's a lot of things in
Jewish tradition which are, one of the things the rabbi's do of course is they create these
fences around the Torah what you Yeshua called the heavy burdens, that they load on the people
and they won't lift one finger to do themselves. But then, other instances,
they do something different. They say hey, these
commandments are too hard. The ones God actually tells us to do because we're so busy doing
our man-made takanote, our man-made laws, rules and regulations. So they come up with these loopholes to get out of doing the
actual commandments of God. And I think that's what it means when it says without craftiness. - That's interesting. Now, even if we don't get
into these other things and at any time like this, just speak up because that craftiness, the shmita, when they started it out, the rabbis sold the whole
land of Israel to an Arab for the year. - That's craftiness.
- So I didn't belong to a Jew and so they could continue
planting and harvesting and then it reverted back. That craftiness is very evident. - As a reason, Jews are such good lawyers. Well, and I'm not trying to be funny. - No. - Really, they're dealing with the Torah and trying to think wow,
God commanded us to do that. We don't wanna do it. There's got to be some way we can make where we can throw away
the spirit of the law but through the letter of the law, get out of actually doing it. I think that's what the craftiness is. I mean Jews are trained to do this then you apply that to other laws and you make a very good lawyer. Let me jump ahead here. They did not have children. Elisheva was barren and both
of them were advanced in years and the cohens of Arya
had the priesthood before and it says in Hebrews,
this is really interesting, it says before Yehovah. In the order of the family according to the custom of the
service of the priesthood, the lot fell upon him
to present the incense and he came into the sanctuary of Yehovah. And that's the first word on the page. We turn the page here and we
get to the top of the page and literally, the first word it says at the end of the last page,
it says the sanctuary of and the first work there
at the upper right, anybody can see it, it says Yehovah and just like it has every
time in this document, with the full vowels. Incredible. Okay, let's go on. Read a little bit more. Okay, and it says and all
the throng of the people were standing outside to pray
at the time of the incense and the angel of Yehovah appeared to him standing at the right
of the altar of incense and Z'kharyah, when he
saw him was terrified and fear seized hold of him. And the angel said to
him, do not fear Z'kharyah for your prayer's heard
and Elisheva, your wife will give birth to a son and you shall call his name Yochanan and there shall be to
you joy and happiness and many will be happy
at the time of his birth for he will be great before Yehovah. And will not drink wine or strong drink and he will be filled from the (speaking in foreign language). The Holy Spirit, from
the womb of his mother and he will turn many of
the children of Israel to Yehovah, their Elohim
and he will walk before him in the spirit and power of Eliyahu to return the heart of
the father's to the sons and he will return the
heretics to the righteousness of the righteous ones. That's pretty cool. That's kind of different
what you got in the Greek. And to prepare to Yehovah, to pair it to Yehovah the people prepared. Now I wanna stop there for a second and I don't think we're gonna be able to read the whole thing. But I wanna go back to the name. We're seeing here the
name in a Hebrew gospel from the Vatican junk box
with the vowels Yehovah and there's one more thing. I hope we have time to get to. But I wanna talk about
something about the name. One of the things you hear from scholars. There's actual solid scholarship
out there from Gesenius. We've mentioned him before. He was the great Hebrew grammarian really of the last 200 years and although he got a
bunch of things wrongs, a bunch of things wrong, he
really was a great grammarian. One of the things he says
is he says those vowels that people think are the name Yehovah and in English became Jehovah,
those are the wrong vowels and one of the arguments he brings is what's called the preposition argument. It's called the inseparable
prepositions or more accurately for those who actually know Hebrew, the inseparable particles. So the inseparable particle argument is that when the name Yehovah
is preceded by certain letters that are attached to the word, I don't wanna get too complicated here, that the first letter is
silent just like it's Adonai. And I wanna show you
what Adonai looks like. Adonai is the way Jews
traditionally read this. And here we have a manuscript. This is a manuscript from
the Russian National Library, EVR B-52 and I call this,
Michael, the B-52 Bomber of Hebrew manuscripts because
this proves definitively puts to rest the whole
issue of the vowels. Now, bear with me people
for one moment here. You see here on your
screen, it says ladonai, that is the word Adonai with what's called the inseparable preposition
or inseparable particle. And the law is attached to the word and it has the vowel you
would expect for Adonai but one of the important things here is that the first letter
of Adonai is silent. Why is it silent? Because in Hebrew you have lah ah donai. So la ah, it's a contraction just like you say in English
cannot becomes can't. It's a typical contraction. It's called the elision of the aleph in Hebrew linguistics. Ladonai, silent aleph, so
there's no vowel in the aleph when it has the attached preposition. This is the inseparable particle. No aleph on Adonai. Why do we care about this? This is normal. You find this in every single manuscript every printed Bible. What we discovered in B-52 which became the B-52
Bomber of Hebrew manuscripts is that when Yehovah is preceded by the attached preposition, it has the full vowels Yehovah. Now, I just told you, the first
letter of Adonai is silent. There's no vowel in that letter. And what we've been told for 200 years since the time of Gesenius
is that the vowels of Yod Heh Vav Heh, the vowels of the name are the vowels of Adonai. And therefore, the vowel in
the Yod of Yod Heh Vav Heh represents the aleph of Adonai. In fact, in the B-52
manuscript in the B-52 Bomber, there is no vowel in the Yod. Or let me rephrase that correctly, there is a vowel in the Yod! We expect there to be no
vowel based on Gesenius but in fact, it has the full vowels and what I can say
definitively without question is these are the vowels of the name that can't be the vowels of Adonai. Now, what does this have to
do with the Hebrew gospels that we discovered in the Vatican junk box that I discovered 17 or 18 years ago? So you open up there and in Luke, we just read the verse in
Luke and there it says, and to prepare for Yehovah
or to Yehovah the people and it's lah Yehovah with the full vowels. In Adonai, that first
letter should have no vowel but the fact that it has lah Yehovah in the B-52 Bomber Hebrew manuscript, now in over 150 manuscripts
of the Old Testament, we know it has this exact same thing and it's even in the
Gospel of Luke in Hebrew proving definitively from
a linguistic perspective that these are the true
vowels of the name itself, not the vowels of Adonai even in the Hebrew Gospel
of Luke from the Vatican. - [Announcer] When Bible scholars discovered a Hebrew version
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realize that this is so packed. We've got so much more to share with you and Nehemia is not
going to be able to read the rest of Luke with
you and there are things that we wanna cover that we
decided that we are going to do an additional DVD. This is not gonna go out on the air. It's going to be in your
pack if you order this, it's going to be an additional episode that's not going to be aired because we've got other things
that we wanna share, right? - I mean there's just so much, yeah. - Yeah, and so what I'm going to do is, I'm not going to have time for Nehemia to go through and translate it all but in verse 25 of chapter one,
this is what Elizabeth said after she conceives. She says thus hath Yehovah dealt with me in the days wherein he looked upon me to take away my reproach among men. So that word Lord there is Yehovah with all the proper. - [Nehemia] Vowels. - Vowels included. And Nehemia, start this half first. - Yeah, and a little bit more. Okay, so we've seen the name Yehovah here in this Hebrew Luke from the Vatican. The name Yeshua was also there. Can we get to that? - Well, okay, all right, that's what-- - All right, in the sixth
month, the angel Gabriel was sent from Yehovah
in the city of Galilee and its name was Nazareth
to a certain virgin. And it's interesting there, the Hebrew word for virgin is betulah. To a certain betulah who
was betrothed to a man and his name was Yosef
from the house of David and the name of the virgin,
the betulah, was Miriam. Let me read this now in Hebrew. (speaking in foreign language) And when the angel came to her, he said, (speaking in foreign language). And when the angel came to her, he said, Shalom to you, meaning peace, and this is the greeting in Hebrew. Shalom to you. She who is full of grace,
Yehovah be with you or Yehovah is with you
and I love that in Hebrew because that's exactly what Boaz said to the harvesters in Ruth and it's exactly what
the angel said to Gideon and in the mission, it
says that this is the way the ancient Israelites
would greet one another in the name saying Yehovah be with you. Yehovah with you. And that's what's the angel says to her. - And this is one of Ruth's descendants. - Wow. (laughs) Yehovah be with you. You are blessed among women. And she looked and was
frightened because of his words and she was thinking what
sort of shalom was this? Meaning he said to her shalom to you and she's thinking what's shalom is this? - [Michael] Well, this is-- - What sort of peace is this or greeting? And the angel said to
her do not fear Miriam for you have found favor before Yehovah. Behold, you are pregnant and
will give birth to a son. I'm gonna read this in Hebrew. (speaking in foreign language) And you will call his name Yeshua. (speaking in foreign language) This one will be great. (speaking in foreign language) And he will be called
son of the most high. (speaking in foreign language) And Yehovah Elohim will give him the throne of David, his father. (speaking in foreign language) And he will reign over the house
of Yaakov, of Jacob forever and there will be no (speaking
in foreign language). He told her there will
be no end to his kingdom. And Miriam said to the
angel, how will this be for I've not known a man? And the angel answered and said to her, the spirit of holiness
will enter you and exalt, and this is interesting,
and an exalted might will be in your shadow
or in your protection which is not quite what
it says in the Greek. It's very interesting. And this is, I got to
read this part in Hebrew. And this is the end, the
last words here in Luke. (speaking in foreign language) Because he that will be born will be holy, he shall be called ben
Yehovah, son of Yehovah. And that's what we find in
the junk box in the Vatican. - That, ladies and gentlemen,
it doesn't get any better from the junk box of the
Vatican than that right there. That is just incredible. - And it's just been
sitting there for who knows how many centuries and they
don't even know they have it. - And there it is. Right in the Hebrew, there's
no other way to pronounce it, Yeshua, Yeshua. - It's written right there
with the vowels, right? - And the same thing
in the Hebrew Matthew. It's the same. - Absolutely, and look,
there's people who say Yahshua and things like that. - I was one of those people. I think I've got a DVD on it. - Well, I mean I could only
call that pseudo-Hebrew because the way those letters are written can't be pronounced Yahshua. I mean it doesn't fit the
rules of Hebrew phonology and maybe we'll do one
of the Q and As on that. And what's interesting
is there isn't a doubt, there isn't the debate in Jewish and scholarly literature
about the name Yeshua. The only real debate is about
the name Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh whether those are the vowels of Adonai or those are the actual vowels of the name and then the whole Yahweh thing. We talked about that in an earlier episode and really this document along
with over 150 manuscripts of the Old Testament with the B-52 Bomber with the definitive proof that has what's called the
inseparable preposition proves definitively that
is actually the vowels of the name Yehovah. It can't be the vowels of Adonai. And Michael, I mean I am so blessed. People would often say,
what period of history do you wanna live in? And look, okay, I would like
to have been at Mount Sinai but other than that,
maybe to have met Yeshua. Other than that, there's
no other period of history I wanna have lived in up until now, except other than today. - [Michael] Right now, right now. - Right now, this moment,
we're living in a period where knowledge is increasing as it talks about in the Book of Daniel. I feel like we're living
in what it describes in the book of Acts where it talks about the restoration of all things. Can you read that, Michael? - [Michael] Yeah, yeah, I wanna read that. - I think we're living in
that period of history. - Because this is the disciples and they have just healed
the man who's lame, he's at caner gate, the
beautiful gate and now, they're speaking to the people
and speaking and saying, the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of Yehovah and he shall send Yeshua, Messiah which before was preached
unto you whom the heaven must receive until the
times of the restitution or restoration of all
things which God has spoken by the mouth of the holy
prophets since the world began. This is a time that was promised. And Nehemia, why do you
see these discoveries? Why are they so important in our time? Because the Jews are looking
for the coming of the Messiah, here, these Jews were
saying that the heavens must receive the Messiah until
the restoration of all things and we're seeing things
restored that we never imagined, the Gentiles could have
never have imagined the stuff that it's going on right now. - Well, Michael, I see this as
part of a pattern of history of restoration and it's interesting. This isn't a new doctrine as you said. He says this is this restoration is something spoken by the prophets. So when I hear that I
say well, which prophets? And I look at what's happened really since the, starting in the 1800s. We had the return of the
Jews of the land of Israel. They were scattered
throughout the Diaspora and began to return in
large numbers in the 1800s. We have the restoration
of the Hebrew language which is prophesied in Zephaniah. We'll get to that in a minute. The return of Jewish
sovereignty after 2,000 years. The liberation of the Temple Mountain and the rest of Jerusalem. I mean we have a psalm about how Jerusalem is united as a city and it
actually happened in 1967. The restoration of the calendar. The restoration now of the name and the discovery of these Hebrew gospels. I have to wonder if this is a part of this whole pattern of restoration. And I'm not a Christian,
I'm not a Messianic Jew but I'm seeing these restorations of even of these ancient Hebrew documents. I think this could be part of the pattern and it gets to be excited, Michael, 'cause I asked the question,
Michael, what's next? If we've seen all these things
restored in our lifetime, many of these in my lifetime, things you never expect to have happened. I mean I've shared this with
you before on the program about how in the 80s,
the Jewish leadership was talking how it would take
centuries to liberate the Jews from the Soviet Union. And now, over one million
Jews have returned. I mean the return of
the Jews from Ethiopia, we are seeing restoration people, waking up around the world and realizing they've been called to the of Israel. That's the Isaiah 50:6 prophecy. But I wanna read one prophecy to you. Jeremiah 32:41, this is part
of what it's talking about in Acts 3:21. So what's really interesting
about this verse. Let me read it. And this is talking about
the return of the exiles. God bringing the exiles back and planting them in their land. He says I will rejoice
over you to do good to you and I will plant them
in this land in truth with all my heart and with all my soul. And you know, Michael,
in the entire Bible, it talks repeatedly about loving God with all your heart and all your soul. It's in the Shema. When they asked Yeshua what's the most important commandment, he said to them, Shema
Israel, hear o Israel, Yehovah (speaking in foreign language). Yehovah is our Elohim, Yehovah is one and then he says (speaking
in foreign language). And you shall love Yehovah
with all your heart. (speaking in foreign language) And with all your soul and all your might. And in all of the entire
Bible, there's only one place where God says he will do something with all his heart and all his soul and that is planting the people of Israel back in their land. So when we hear, that's not
some small trivial thing. That is the only thing
God ever said he'll do with all his heart and all
his soul and he's done it. It's begun, hasn't been completed. we still have millions
of Jews in the Diaspora and the 10 lost tribes
and so there's ways to go but it's beginning to happen and God does that with
all his heart and soul. - Oh, that's incredible. And Jeremiah 32, this is right after he receives a revelation that
his cousin is gonna come in to the prison and offer for
Jeremiah to buy some land and he puts the title
deeds in an earthen vessel and to bury it in that land and he says that this is going to happen, that Israel's going to
come back one day and. - Yeah, and I love that prophecy because I know where Jeremiah was from, I've been to that place. This is the village of Anatote. And I mean it's an incredible image there. They're buying and selling
land and they're like you're gonna wanna buy land? This is worthless, the Babylonians
about to take the land. - [Michael] Right, I got the
siege wall around Jerusalem. - That's right. I mean it's like buying the
swampland in Florida, right? I mean what would you want this for? And his point is that this
prophecy will be fulfilled. - [Michael] Yeah, amen. - And now, we look back and the
prophecy has been fulfilled. Now the nations of the
world don't want this. Their murmuring and their
their speaking against Yehovah and against his Messiah like
that talks about in Psalm 2. I mean the UNESCO has
made this proclamation that the Jews have no historical
connection to Jerusalem. UNESCO, Jeremiah wrote this. Whether you believe in God or not, there's no disputing Jeremiah
wrote this in around 586 BC. We know the date from archeology. So he wrote this in 586
BC and he's talking there about how God will do this
with all his heart and soul, plant the Israelites back in their land and UNESCO says that there's no connection between the Jews in the land! What are they talking about? I mean it's insanity. I mean I feel like
sometimes I'm in that movie with the Planet of the Apes. It's a madhouse in here, madhouse! I mean you're dealing with
the United Nations there. Delusional. I mean the prophecy is right here. - Well, they need to pass a resolution against
ignorance and stupidity but they had to jail them all. - There'll be no members. Right, right. Well, so there's another
prophecy here, Michael which is two key prophecies I wanna bring. one is Zephaniah 3:9. Before I get to those,
Michael, we live in this period or I'm gonna say that. Remind me to come back for this. Because I wanna tie it all together and we'll get to some of
it in the fifth episode which is a bonus episode. I'm so excited about that. 'Cause I'm gonna share
some other things that-- - This is gonna be great. We're doing a special thing and we're not gonna air it on television. It's just gonna be on DVD but
it's gonna be in the package of this whole thing. - And I understand people can
get it on Blu-ray as well. - Blu-ray, yeah. - Okay. - That's it. - So Zephaniah 3:9 is one of
the key prophecies in the Bible about the restoration of all
things that he talks about in Acts 3:21. For that, I will turn to the key. (speaking in foreign language) For that, I will turn to
the people's pure language. (speaking in foreign language) To call all of them
upon the name of Yehovah to serve him which
literally says one shoulder. And the image there is everyone is standing shoulder to shoulder in a line serving Yehovah together. Now what is the image
here of Zephaniah 3:9? When I read this, it's
immediately clear to me that Zephaniah 3:9 is
an undoing of the curse of the Tower of Babel. What happened at the
Tower of Babel in Genesis is all the nations came together
and they had one language and that language was Hebrew. And what did they use that Hebrew for? They said let's build for ourselves a name and we'll rebel against God and God then scattered
them throughout the world and gave them different languages
so they couldn't do that and he's saying that curse will be undone and in the end times, we'll
all come together once again with a single language,
with a pure language, that original Hebrew that
was the language of creation. All mankind will speak
that language once again not to build for themselves a name but to call upon the name of Yehovah, to serve him and not themselves, not to build their tower but to build up the name of Yehovah with one shoulder. And we're in the beginning
of that process, Michael. This can't happen until first the Jews restore their own language. There was this big debate in the 1800s in the Jewish world in Europe. There were four daily
newspapers in Hebrew. People couldn't speak Hebrew but they could read and write in Hebrew. And people said, wait a minute,
this isn't our language. That's some language of
some ancient prophets who are now dead. We should make Yiddish
the national language of the Jewish people. And the Jewish people, as
a whole, rejected that. They said Yiddish was the
language of the exile, the language of the Diaspora,
the language of our slavery. We must restore the pure
language of the prophets and I believe that's part
of what's going on here. This is part of the
prophecy of Zephaniah 3:9. We're witnessing it happening
in front of our eyes almost in slow motion. One more prophecy, Michael. Zechariah 14:9. I love this part. - And this is part of all
the prophets has spoken from the beginning. This is a restoration. - This is what Acts 3:21 is about. - Right, they know this. They know this. - Absolutely. Now, I'll tell you one of the reasons I love this verse, Michael. It's actually the closing
verse of the daily prayers in the traditional rabbinical Judaism. Now, I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. But at a certain point in my upbringing, I'm like I don't, all these prayers, I mean we would have prayers
three times a day everyday. And it was prayers by rote and
I would often come at the end because I was ditching. I just couldn't do it
standing there for 45 minutes. It's the same prayers
day after day by rote. But I would come to this
and it would be sung. It's part of the Adon Olam. (speaking in foreign language) And it shall come to pass that Yehovah will be king over the entire Earth. (speaking in foreign language) And on that day your, Yehovah will be a (speaking in foreign language). He'll be one, (speaking
in foreign language). And his name will be one. And the rabbis in the Talmud
would talk about this. I only discovered this
later that in the Talmud, they say what does this verse
mean his name will be one? And I talked about this in my book, Shattering The Conspiracy Of Silence. What does it mean his name will be one? They say today in the exile, we call upon, instead of
saying Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh, we say Adonai. And in the end times, we'll all call upon the
name, the entire Earth, all mankind, his name will be one. We won't read the letters Yod Heh Vav Heh and speak them as Adonai, we'll speak them the way they're written with those vowels Yehovah. And in my teaching I did and this in The Gentiles
Shall Know My Name teaching. I bring this source, Rabbi Jacob Bacharach from the year 1890 who brings this verse and brings the Talmudic passage and he says when it
says that we'll read it the way it's written,
it means with the vowels which proves back then they
knew what the vowels were and these are still the
true vowels Yehovah. And so what I see happening is
this explosion of information is part of the fulfillment
of this prophecy to restore the name, restore the language, restore the people and
just restore the truth. It's part of the
restoration of all things. Having said all that Michael,
this explosion of information is a double edged sword. It's a great blessing but
there's also great danger in it and we need to confront that
danger and deal with it. I'm gonna share more about this in the bonus episode, Michael, but I wanna just quickly tell
the story about Dr. Mark. Dr. Mark is this dear friend of mine and I'll tell more about it later but he was struggling with this situation where he had stopped believing in Yeshua. And he had gotten to the point
where he was just at the edge of like, I can't continue
to believe in this in good conscience because
I've seen all this evidence that Yeshua is not the Messiah. And where did he get this evidence? He tells me, I did an interview with him on my Hebrew Voices podcast. He says I asked rabbi Google. Meaning he had these questions trying to understand
the Jewish perspective and he Googled it and he
came to the conclusion if everything they're telling
me is true and he's a doctor, a medical doctor and he
has a degree in theology, he came to the conclusion
in my heart I believe this but my head is telling me I
can't keep believing this. And what ended up happening
is I, the Karaite Jew, he asked me to convince
him to believe in Yeshua. If he said if you're gonna
argue both sides of the argument and understand that the
the New Testament side, could you argue me to
believe in Yeshua and I did. And he shares how, and
we'll share more about this in the next episode. He shares how he only
believes in Yeshua today because of the things that I said to him. And we'll share what
some of those things are in the bonus episode if you allow me. - Well, this could get you in
hot water with the rabbinic. - I don't care. Everything I said was truth. And so let let him come after
me, I really don't care. I never, look-- - Right, right, you unsprung the trap that a lot of rabbi said for people because they don't know Hebrew. American Christians just don't know the background of the Bible and-- - Well, I don't think these rabbis are trying to be deceptive. I think they're trying
to answer the question for Jewish audience. Hey, we don't believe in
Yeshua and based on that, how do we interpret these verses and how have they been
historically interpreted by our people? And we'll talk more about
that in the bonus episode. I don't wanna spoil it. So I don't think they're trying to be-- - Oh, that's gonna take
us a while to get into it. - Okay, I think so. - Is it? And we don't have time. - It's exciting. But I mean, look, Michael, we're living in this incredible period. 1,034 Hebrew Bible manuscripts
with the name Yehovah. We've got all these documents
that nobody has studied. The Hebrew scholar in
Israel literally told me that they don't care,
they're not interested, that's just Christian stuff. So who knows what treasures
are still to be found in the Hebrew Epistle of James,
the Hebrew epistle of Jude that's in the British Library. - You know, this is one of the things that we're doing on the break, going through Jude, the Hebrew Jude and this is an epistle that he's really he's telling the people to
earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints. This is part of the restoration because at the end of the first century, it was already being lost. Paul, Saul admitted it. All those in Asia had turned away from. He spent two years and
three months at one school, the School of Tyrannus
and teaching them and yet, they had turned away
from him at that time. He mentions by names that the people that have turned away
and gone to the dark side and there in Jude, he said
that we must earnestly, earnestly contend to restore the faith that was once delivered to the saints. That faith that Yeshua and his disciples, what they were teaching,
what they were promulgating was being lost at that
time and so if we think in the Christian world
in the Christian church that we have the faith once
delivered to the saints, that was lost centuries
ago, millennia ago. But yet, Yeshua said I
will declare your name. I will make it known
and I have made it known and he said he would send the Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth and that's why we need the
spirit to lead us into all truth. As Nehemia is talking in Jeremiah, in this prophecy in Jeremiah
that he would send fishers and they would fish
them out of there exiles and then he would send hunters and they would hunt them out of the exiles and this is what he was
talking about in the 1800s, there were Jews that were
coming back to Israel. They were waking up and
coming back to Israel. But most of the Jews in Germany was saying we're more German than we are Jewish and they were living like
those kings in Europe. - Michael, I'm actually
gonna be giving a lecture at this university. They invited me to come
speak about the Holocaust and I said what I really
wanna share what's in my heart is something called the lost, I call it The Lost Scrolls of Auschwitz. And I had no idea about this
until in a few years ago. It turns out that some
of the Jewish slaves whose job it was to pull the bodies out of the gas chamber and burn them, they wrote their accounts of what happened and these were discovered by the Poles afterwards in these pile of ashes. And we could read these now today. And one of the things he
shares is how these Jews are about to be put into the gas chambers and there's this old
rebbetzin, the wife of a rabbi and she starts, she gets really angry. She said our rabbis have
been telling the people don't leave, that Hungary is our home, that we shouldn't go back
to the land of Israel. And now, look what's happened. And I pray to Yehovah every day that we don't have another Holocaust. But there's a reason that
the Jews have a country and a place to flee to. There are Jews today in my neighborhood who come from France. There's French all over my
neighborhood in Jerusalem today. And they're there as refugees because if a Jew walks
down the streets in France with a kippah and tzitzit
who looks like a Jew, he'll be attacked. and there was this
liberal leftist journalist who doubted this in Malmo,
Sweden and went there and the person was attacked. And he said okay, the Jews
are telling the truth. You can't live in Europe anymore as a Jew without being attacked
in these certain areas that have been taken over
by other populations. - Well, the fisher's fished them out. Herzl, they they fished them
out and then the hunters hunted them out from behind
every rock and in every cave and ladies and gentlemen,
part what happens is as Israel comes back into the land, the Gentiles then start coming to Israel from the ends of the earth
in crying out in repentance in the Almighty because they repent. The Almighty makes his name
known and what is his name in over a thousand Hebrew manuscripts? - [Nehemia] His name is Yehovah. - And so this is the time that
the restoration of all things is beginning and that
means to those believers that means that Yeshua
has to remain in heaven until the restoration of all things and then the Messiah comes. - Michael, I wanna read one
last prophecy if we have time. Isaiah 66:20, it's
talking about the nations. It said then they will
bring all your brothers from the nations as an
offering to Yehovah. The nations are involved
in restoring the Jews and the Israelites to the land of Israel. And when I hear about these organizations that are actually doing
this, fulfilling prophecy, I say we truly are in this
period of things being restored. And I hope soon, that we get, I pray. So can I end in prayer? - Please do. (speaking in foreign language) - Send us your son, Father. Send us the Messiah, Yehovah whoever you have planned
who is your son, Yehovah, let us know him soon, let
him be here on Earth soon to restore all things, to
bring that final restoration to the world in your holy name, Yehovah. Amen. - Amen. Shabbat shalom. Shavua tov. See you next week,
after a good, good week. And we'll be back with Shabbat Night Live. (speaking in foreign language)
