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bjbjU x~Lu {Melissa} 28:30 A CHRISTIAN VOICE FOR ISRAEL >>WE ALL KNOW THAT COUNTRIES ESTABLISH
EMBASSIES ON ONE ANOTHERS SOIL. MEXICAN CONSULATE, SWISS EMBASSY, BUT WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL
CHRISTIAN EMBASSY OF JERUSALEM? WHAT KIND OF AN EMBASSY IS THIS? >>FIND OUT NEXT ON
THE CROSSOVER, WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK. >>[SONG] FOR NEARLY TWO THOUSAND YEARS JEWS AND CHRISTIANS
HAVE BEEN DIVIDED, BUT NOW GOD IS CALLING FOR THE HEALING OF PAST HURTS AND THE COMFORTING
OF HIS PEOPLE. DISCOVER HOW GOD IS PROPHETICALLY UNITING JEWS AND CHRISTIANS ACROSS THE WORLD
TODAY ON THE CROSSOVER. HERE ARE YOUR HOSTS MITCH AND ROZALIE JEROME. >>TODAY SPECIAL
GUEST, REVEREND MALCOLM HEDDING HAS BEEN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY
OF JERUSALEM SINCE 2000. PRIOR HE WAS IN THE TRENCHES, PLANTING CHURCHES IN AFRICA FOR
25 YEARS, AND FIGHTING AGAINST THE EVILS OF APARTHEID. MALCOLM WELCOME TO OUR SHOW THE
CROSSOVER, WE ARE GLAD FOR YOU TAKING THE TIME TO BE WITH US TODAY. >>GOD BLESS YOU,
THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. WE WANT TO START HERE AND GIVE SOME EXPOSURE TO THE ICEJ. AS
WE SAID IN THE INTRO YOU ARE ONE OF THE FOREMOST CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS IN THE WORLD AND YOUR
DEALING WITH ISRAEL, YOUR DEALING WITH THE CHURCH, YOU ARE DEALING WITH RELATIONSHIPS
BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM. HOW DID YOU PERSONALLY GET INVOLVED IN THAT DYNAMIC? >> WELL I THINK
IT BEGAN IN 1975 FOR ME, IN THAT IN THAT YEAR, A FRIEND OF MINE FOUNDED AN ORGANIZATION CALLED
CHRISTIAN ACTION FOR ISRAEL AND THIS PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL WAS A VERY SPRIRITUAL AND INTERESTING
GUY. HE HAD AN ABILITY TO PINPOINT THE PURPOSE OF GOD IN OUR TIME. HIS NAME WAS BASIL JACOBS
AND I JOINED HIM IN 1975. ALTHOUGH AT THAT TIME I WAS PLANTING CHURCHES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA,
AND THAT BEGAN FOR ME A JOURNEY OF ENGAGING THE JEWISH PEOPLE AS A CHRISTIAN AND HE WENT
ON IN 1980 TO BEING ONE OF THE FOUNDERS ONE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY IN
JERUSALEM. AND OF COURSE I GOT INVOLVED ON THE GROUND FLOOR AS WELL, SO THAT'S BASICALLY
MY BEGINNING. THE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY WAS FOUNDED IN SEPTEMBER 1980 AND
IT WAS BIRTHED AS A REVOLUTION IN FACT AT THAT TIME, GIVEN THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY,
GIVEN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE JEWISH STATE. IN 1948, JUST 30 ODD YEARS BEFORE AND THE
IDEA OF ESTABLISHING A CHRISTIAN EVANELICAL MOVEMENT IN JERUSALEM USING THE WORD EMBASSY
ON THE PURPOSE TO DESIGNATE REPRESENTATION, REACHING OUT, HOLDING HANDS WAS QUITE RADICAL
FOR ISRAELIS >>TO ACCEPT THAT, ESPECIALLY CHRISTIAN'S COMING TO THE LAND IS THAT WHAT
YOUR SAYING? >>TO ACCEPT THAT AND IT WAS GREETED WITH ALOT OF SUSPICION, AND IT WAS BY THE
GOOD FORTUNE OF GOD A REALITY THAT A CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL CALLED HARRY HURWICZ WHO WAS THE
CHIEF ADVISOR TO THE PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL AT THAT TIME WHO WAS MENACHEM BEGIN. HARRY
HOROWITZ WAS A SOUTH AFRICAN JEW, WHO WAS THE HEAD OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ZIONIST FEDERATION
AND THEN MADE "ALIYAH". BUT IN THE '70'S HE BECAME AWARE OF PEOPLE LIKE BASIL JACOBS AND
THIS SORT OF VERY SMALL INITIATIVE TO DO SOMETHING, TO SOMEHOW RECTIFY THE PROBLEMS OF THE HISTORICAL
PAST. AND HE STEPPED IN, IN JERUSALEM AND BASICALLY SAID TO THE PRIME MINISTER, IF YOU
DON'T PUT YOUR WEIGHT BEHIND THIS TYPE OF INITIATIVE, IT WILL NEVER FLY. SO, THE WONDERFUL
THING IS IN THE TIMING OF GOD. MENACHEM BEGIN SUPPORTED THE IDEA OF THE CHRISTIAN EMBASSY.
>>WELCOMED TO IT. BEFORE WE JUMP INTO THAT, WHEN YOU WERE IN AFRICA, BIRTHING CHURCHES
ETC., AND CAME ACROSS THIS GENTLEMAN THAT HAD THE SPARK FOR ISRAEL DID YOU HAVE ONE
PARTICULAR MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU KNEW THIS IS IT, I'VE GOT TO GO THAT WAY? >>YEAH,
YEAH. IT WAS, IN THE COURSE OF MY THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, WHERE I WAS DOING A BACHELOR'S
OF THEOLOGY DEGREE AND A MAJOR FACULTY OF THEOLOGY WHICH WAS ACCREDITED WITH LONDON
UNIVERSITY AND WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA AND WHILE WE HAD A LOT OF GOOD LECTURERS
THEY WERE ALL GOOD IN FACT, SOME OF THEM IN THE MORE REPLACEMENT REFORMED TRADITION AND
WE HAVE TO BE HONEST, WHILE THEY WERE OUTSTANDING LECTURERS AND DEVOTIONAL PEOPLE WHEN IT CAME
TO EXPOUNDING THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS, LIKE ISAIAH, OR JEREMIAH AND WHATEVER THE WAY THEY
HANDLED ISRAEL, WAS FOR ME AS A YOUNG CHRISTIAN BEING EDUCATED, IMPOSSIBLE TO SWALLOW AND
I BEGAN TO QUESTION. >>IT WAS REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY >>YEAH, AND THEY WOULD SAY ALTHOUGH
THE TEXT HERE SAYS ISRAEL WE MUST SEE THE CHURCH HERE. AND I REMEMBER GETTING UP IN
THE CLASSES AND SAYING, BUT DR. TYLER, I DON'T SEE THAT, I SEE THE CONTEXT AS QUITE LITERAL.
I CANNOT IN MY WILDEST IMAGINATION SEE HOW YOU CAN JUST SUDDENLY SAY YOU MUST READ THE
CHURCH HERE. >> WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE CLASS DID YOU REPRESENT THERE? >>QUITE A FEW ACTUALLY,
>>OKAY >> AND UH, AND ANYWAY, WE HAD THESE LIVELY DEBATES. BUT THAT WAS THE DEFINING
MOMENT FOR ME AND I REALIZED THAT THERE WAS SOME DISCONNECT HERE AND I WANTED TO FIND
OUT WHY. SO IT LEAD ME ON A JOURNEY AND GOD TOOK ME ON THAT JOURNEY. AND THAT'S WHO I
AM TODAY. YEAH. >>SO, GIVE US A STORY HERE. CAUSE IT SAID ON YOUR WEBSITE, LET'S GO JUMP
INTO THE ICEJ. YOU GUYS ARE REACHING YOUR HANDS OUT, 30 YEARS IN THE LAND, DEMONSTRATING
CHRISTIAN LOVE TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND WE GOTTA JUST SLIP A LITTLE OVER THAT CHRISTIAN
LOVE, BECAUSE IT GETS KIND OF OVER DONE HERE IN AMERICA THAT TERM, BUT MAKE IT REAL. GIVE
US A STORY OF SPECIFIC, WHAT DOES THAT TRANSLATE TO? >>I THINK >>YOU KNOW YOU HEAR SLOPPY AGAPE,
IS THE WAY ITS PREACHED HERE SOMETIMES, LETS SAY WE'RE DEALING IN A LAND OF A WHOLE DIFFERENT
REALM >>YEAH, THIS IS NOT A SENTIMENTAL THING, I THINK CHIEFLY WHEN ONE READS A STATEMENT
LIKE THAT ONE HAS TO READ FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HISTORICAL CHRISTIAN
HISTORY AND ALSO FOR US AS CHRISTIAN, WE ARE CHRISTIANS, AND WE THEREFORE BELIEVE THAT
THERE HAS BEEN A DISTORTED IMAGE OF JESUS PROJECTED TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE, SADLY THRU
THE CHURCH HISTORICALLY WITH ALL ITS AWFUL CONSEQUENCES AND I SUPPOSE PART OF THE IMPORTANCE
OF AN ORGANIZATION LIKE OURS IS RECTIFYING THAT DISTORED IMAGE AND RATHER THAN A SLOPPY
SENTIMENTAL THING OF SAYING WE HUG YOU, IT'S AN ENGAGEMENT OF TRUTH AND IT S AN ENGAGEMENT
LIKE JESUS THAT PUTS ITS MONEY WHERE ITS MOUTH IS AND IN OTHER WORDS WE WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
>>SO GIVE US AN EXAMPLE >>IN ISRAEL, AND UH, AND THE EXAMPLE OF THAT IS OF COURSE THERE'S
HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND OF PROJECTS THAT THE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY DOES IN THE
NAME OF JESUS AND WE COULD TALK FOR HOURS BUT UH ONE OF THEM IS IN THE INTIFADA YEARS
FOR INSTANCE, WE SUPPLIED THE CHILDREN OF EFRAT WITH A BULLET PROOF BUS. NOW THIS TYPE
OF PROJECT BELIEVE IT OUR NOT, COST HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS >>THIS IS ONE OF THE
JEWISH SETTLEMENTS AND THE KIDS HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL >>YEAH, YEAH AND THEY ARE GETTING
SHOT UP ON THE ROAD AND SOME THEM HAVE ALREAY BEEN CALLED KILLED AND THERE'S A NEED FOR
A BULLET PROOF BUS SO WE STEPPED IN AND SAID, WE WILL SUPPLY THAT NEED. BUT ON THE BUS S
CLEARLY STATED YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS A GIFT OF ICEJ FROM CHRISTIANS ALL OVER THE WORLD,
SO IT S A PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION >>IT'S A BIG STATMENT >>IT'S A BIG STATEMENT, AND UH
>>IT'S CHRISTIAN LOVE IN ACTION >>AND OF CHRISTIAN LOVE IN ACTION, ITS NOT JUST MOUTHING OFF
THAT WE LOVE YOU I MEAN FOR INSTANCE IN THE TOWN OF ASHKELON WE BUILT FOR THE MENTALLY
AND PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED CHILDREN, A STATE OF THE ART SWIMMING POOL WITH YOU KNOW, STAIRWAYS
INTO IT SPECIAL JACUZZI JETS IN IT, A BIG POOL, NOT JUST LIKE A LITTLE GARDEN POOL,
A MASSIVE POOL. AND UH, YOU KNOW WITH ALL SORTS OF FACILITIES EVEN YOU COULD WHEEL A
WHEELCHAIR LIKE A RAMP INTO THE POOL WITH HOLDING RAILS. BELIEVE IT OR NOT THIS TYPE
OF THING COSTS A FORTUNE. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, BUT WE SAW THE NEED AND WE PROVIDED
IT, SO THAT THOSE CHILDREN CAN BE THE RECIPIENTS OF THE TYPE OF TREATMENT THAT THEY NEED TO
LEAD A NORMAL LIFE AND TO HAVE DIGNITY AND AT THE SAME TIME WE GAVE IT AS A GIFT TO THE
MUNICIPALITY BUT ONCE AGAIN YOU KNOW WITH A BEAUTIFUL PLAQUE STATING VERY CLEARLY, THIS
HAS COME AS A GIFT FROM CHRISTIANS ALL OVER THE WORLD >>AND WHAT A BIG STATEMENT, FOR
JEWISH PEOPLE RIGHT THERE ARE RECEIVING THE MATERIAL GOODS THEY ALSO KNOW THE HEART >>THEY
ALSO KNOW THE HEART. THESE ARE CHRISTIANS WHO WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE >>[ANNOUNCER]
THE CROSSOVER PRESENTS JEWISH CHRISTIAN RELATIONS, SOME CHRISTIAN LEADERS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT
THE GLOBAL RISE OF ANTI-SEMITISM THREATENING THE SURVIVAL OF ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
THEIR REASON IS ROOTED IN THE BIBLE. >>[HEDDING] ANTI SEMITISM IS AN ATTACK AGAINST GOD BECAUSE
THE JEWISH PEOPLE REPRESENT GOD IN THEIR LIFE AND HISTORY, THAT IS THE MESSAGE IN THE BOOK
OF ESTHER WHERE THERE WAS A SYSTEMATIC ATTEMPT TO LIQUIDATE THE JEWISH PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY
PRAYED TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL. >>[ANNOUNCER] SEVERAL BENEVOLENT MINISTRIES ARE PROVIDING
SUPPORT AND COMFORT TO ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE WORLDWIDE. THE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN
EMBASSY JERUSALEM IS ONE SUCH MINISTRY. >>[DAVID PARSONS] FROM OUR INCEPTION WE HAVE HAD A
CLEAR BIBLICAL MANDATE BASED ON ISAIAH 40, VERSE 1 TO COMFORT THE JEWISH PEOPLE BECAUSE
OF THE LONG CENTURIES OF LEGACY OF CHRISTIAN ANTI-SEMITISM WE NOW WANT TO SHOW THE TRUE
FACE OF JESUS AND BE ENGAGED IN DEEDS THAT ARE MEET FOR REPENTANCE TO SHOW THAT WE ARE
TRULY SORRY FOR WHAT WAS DONE TO THEM IN THE PAST. >>[ANNOUNCER] CHURCH'S ARE BEING CHALLENGED
TO REJECT ALL FORMS OF ANTI-SEMITISM THEY ARE BUILDING A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH THE JEWISH
PEOPLE BASED ON MUTUAL RESPECT. >>[HEDDING] THE HISTORICAL GROUNDS FOR ANTI-SEMITISM WITHIN
THE CHURCH HAVE BEEN WHAT WE CALL REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY. IT IS A SAD FACT THAT THE LAST BOOK
THAT MARTIN LUTHER WROTE WAS CALLED AGAINST JEWS AND THEIR LIES. THIS PARTICULAR BOOK
BECAME FODDER FOR THE NAZI REGIME IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO DESTROY THE JEWISH PEOPLE. >>[NICOLE
YODER] OUR AID PROGRAM HELPS MEET SOCIAL NEEDS THROUGH A VARIETY OF PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS
ACROSS ISRAEL. THE NEED IN ISRAEL IS VERY GREAT WITH 20% OF THE POPULATION ON OR BELOW
THE POVERTY LINE. WE DO THIS IN COORDINATION WITH SOCIAL AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO
WORK WITH EVERY SECTOR OF THE SOCIETY. AND THESE PROGRAMS COVER A WIDE RANGE OF THINGS,
INCLUDING SOUP KITCHENS, FOOD DISTRIBUTION PROJECTS, EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS, HEATERS AND
BLANKET IN THE WINTER TIME AND A MULTITUDE OF OTHER NEEDS THAT ARE COMING ACROSS OUR
DESK EVERYDAY. IT'S A PLEASURE AND HONOR TO BE ABLE TO ASSIST AND WE ARE GLAD TO BE ABLE
TO BE HERE TO DO THAT. >>[ANNOUNCER] TO RECIPROCATE, LEADING ISRAELI INSTITUTIONS ARE PARTNERING
WITH CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS IN BUILDING BRIDGES FOR A BETTER TOMORROW. >>[RABBI SHLOMO RISKIN]
ONE OF THE MIRACLE IN OUR GENERATION IS TO SEE CHANGE WHICH HAS TAKEN PLACE, A CHANGE
IN WHICH THE CHRISTIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY, THE MOTHER / CHILD RELIGIONS HAVE COME TOGETHER
AFTER CLOSE TO 2000 YEARS OF ENMITY AND THE FACT IS THAT WE HAVE AN INSTITUE FOR JEWISH
CHRISTIAN UNDERSTANDING AND COOPERATION WHICH HAS REGULAR DIALOGUES, REGULAR DISCUSSIONS,
ON THE HIGHEST OF THEOLOGICAL LEVELS. WE MUST HAVE A UNITED VOICE OF RELIGION FOR PEACE.
>>[ANNOUNCER] WELCOME BACK TO THE CROSSOVER. >>[MITCH JEROME] HERE WITH US MALCOLM, I KNOW
YOU GO AROUND THE WORLD, AND YOU ARE IN SOME OF THE MOST UNLIKELY PLACES, I'M GOING TO
PRESUME >> UM HUM >>GIVE US A STORY OF CHRISTIAN LOVE AND A PLACE WE NEVER WOULD HAVE EVEN
THOUGHT IT WOULD BE BIRTHED >>WELL I THINK, AND AS I MENTIONED TODAY IN THE ONE MEETING,
TRAVELING TO NIGERIA AND WHAT I DIDN'T SAY IS THE DAY WE MET WITH THESE 10,000 CHRISTIAN
LEADERS WHO HAVE HAD NO REAL CONTACT WITH WESTERN CHRISTIANITY. NO ONE HAS COME AND
TAUGHT THEM ON ISRAEL. THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE READ THIS BOOK AND SAW THERE IS A LOT
TO SAY ABOUT ISRAEL AND DECIDED THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT HAD PLACED UPON THEIR HEARTS THAT THEY
NEEDED TO FAST AND PRAY FOR ISRAEL. SO THEY INVITED US TO PORT A HARTCOURT. NOW THE INTERESTING
THING ABOUT PORT HARTCOURT IS THAT IT IS ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACES ON THE EARTH.
THAT IS WHERE THE NIGER DELTA IS. AND THEY HAVE ALL THESE KIDNAPPINGS THERE WITH THE
OIL RIVERS. THAT'S THE OIL RESERVOIR OF NIGERIA AND YOU HAVE THESE REBEL GROUPS THAT ARE FIGHTING
THE GOVERNMENT THERE BECAUSE THEY SEE THE OIL BARRON'S AS RAPING NIGERIA OF ITS WEALTH.
>> OKAY >>AND THE NIGERIAN'S ARE LEFT POVERTY STRICKEN. >>ITS NOT EVEN THERE, THEY DON'T
EVEN GET THE MONEY >>THEY DON'T GET THE KICKBACK, THERE'S GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION AND SO ON, BUT
NEVERTHELESS, WE FLY INTO AN AIRPORT THERE THAT HAS NO LIGHTS ON THE RUNWAY. AND WE MAKE
IT THERE; WE'RE GIVEN AN ARMED ESCORT THROUGHOUT THE TIME WE ARE THERE. WE ARRIVE AND THERE
ARE 10,000 PEOPLE, UH SEEKING GOD ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL. NOW THAT IS ASTONISHING. >>10,000
PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE OF NIGERIA, IN A SMALL VILLAGE >>IN THE MIDDLE OF NIGERIA, IN A FACILITY
THAT YOU WOULDN'T EVEN CALL A PROPER MEETING PLACE, IN A TOILET WHERE YOU HAVE TO WATER
YOURSELF AND FLUSH IT >>AND THESE PEOPLE... >>AND THESE PEOPLE ARE LYING ON THEIR FACES.
AND I MEAN THIS IS PHENOMENAL. >>UH HUH >>THIS IS HUMBLING AND THEN WE... >>AND HOW DID THEY
FIND YOU? THE ICEJ >>THEY FOUND US BECAUSE WE HAVE A NIGERIAN DIRECTOR CALLED REV. MOSY
MADUGBA. A VERY POWERFUL PREACHER, BY THE WAY AND HE PUT THEM IN CONTACT WITH US. AND
YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN TO COUNTRIES EVEN LIKE HONG KONG YOU CANNOT IMAGINE WHAT IS HAPPENING
IN HONG KONG, CHINA. >>GIVE US THE STORY >>WITH ISRAEL TODAY, FIRST OF ALL YOU'VE GOT A MOVEMENT
OF THE HOUSE CHURCH MOVEMENT IN CHINA CALLED THE JESUS FAMILY AND THAT IS AN AMAZING MOVEMENT
THAT HAS BIRTHED MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF BELIVERS IN CHINA. NOW THE FAMOUS BROTHER
YUN COMES OUT OF THAT MOVEMENT. HE WROTE A BOOK CALLED THE HEAVENLY MAN. HE IS ONE OF
THE MOST PERSECUTED MEN ON THE EARTH TODAY. HE WAS JAILED BY THE CHINESE AND TO KEEP HIM
FROM ESCAPING AS A PREACHER, AND TO KEEP HIM FROM GOING BACK ON THE STREETS TO PREACH,
THEY BROKE BOTH HIS LEGS, AND LEFT HIM WITHOUT MEDICAL TREATMENT. HE HAD A VISITION LIKE
PETER LIKE AN ANGEL WHO TOOK HIM OUT OF JAIL, SO YOU'RE TALKING MAJOR MIRACLES AND VISITATIONS
OF GOD HERE. AND THIS MOVEMENT, WE HAD PASTOR YUN AT OUR FEAST A FEW YEARS AGO IN JERUSALEM
>>FEAST OF TABERNACLES >>THIS MOVEMENT APART FROM BEING A HARVESTING MACHINE FOR THE KINGDOM
OF GOD LIKE YOU CAN NEVER BELIEVE. THIS MOVEMENT HAS BEEN IMPACTED INTERNALLY BY THEIR OWN
STUDY AND WAITING ON GOD WITH A DESIRE TO BLESS ISRAEL. AND THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS TAUGHT
THEM THAT THEY HAVE TO PRAY FOR ISRAEL AND THEY HAVE TO GET INTO THE BATTLE FROM AN INTERCESSION
POINT OF VIEW ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL. >>SO, THEY DON'T HAVE TO HEAR IT FROM THE MEDIA THEY
GOT TOUCHED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN THEIR HEARTS TO DO THIS. >>THEY GOT TOUCHED IN THEIR
HEARTS AND THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE THING, YOU KNOW AND IF YOU GO TO THE AREAS THAT WE HAVE,
WE VISITED THE UNDERGROUND CHURCH IN CHINA AND WE'VE ALSO BEEN TO THE UNDERGROUND CHURCH
IN HONG KONG WHICH IS CHINESE TODAY, IN CHINA YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE.
>>WELL, WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A BREAK HERE IN A SECOND, AND WHEN WE COME BACK WE WANT
TO HEAR WHAT IS GOING ON IN CHINA. WE WANT TO HEAR ABOUT SOME RECONCILIATION BETWEEN
JEWS AND CHRISTIANS, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED THERE MALCOLM. SO, DON'T
TURN THE CHANNEL AND STAY TUNED WE WILL BE BACK WITH MALCOLM HEDDING IN JUST A MOMENT.
>>[MUSIC STARTS - ANNOUNCER] REUNITING JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN FULLFILLMENT OF BIBLICAL
PROPHECY. JOIN MITCH AND ROZALIE AS THEY TACKLE TOUGH TOPICS AND WELCOME DYNAMIC GUESTS ON
THE CROSSOVER. THE PROMISED LAND. >>[AVI LIPKIN] AND I ALSO TRY TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR TO THE
CHRISTIANS ALL OVER THE WORLD THAT THEY ARE THREATENED TO THE SAME EXTENT AS THE JEWS
AND ISRAEL ARE THREATENED. AND I ALSO SAY BASICALLY JEWS AND CHRISTIANS ARE WAITING
FOR THE MESSIAH. WHETHER THE JEW IS FROM ISRAEL WHO SPEAKS HEBREW, AND THAT MESSIAH IS GOING
TO COME TO JERUSALEM, AND SO CHRISTIANS SHARE THIS FAITH WITH THE JEWS >>[ANNOUNCER] THE
HEBRAIC ROOTS OF CHRISTIANITY >>[DWIGHT PRYOR]WE BEGAN LOOKING AT JESUS THROUGH JEWISH SPECTACLES,
AND NOT OUR TEXAS SPECTACLES OR OUR AMERICAN SPECTACLES OR EVEN WESTERN CULTURE SPECTACLES.
HE'S SO MUCH MORE GLORIOUS, HE'S SO MUCH MORE GRAND IT DOES NOT IN ANY WAY DETRACT FROM
THE FACT THAT HE IS THE SON OF GOD, THE RISEN SAVIOR, BUT HE'S ALSO A MAN. >>[ANNOUNCER]
NEVER FORGET >>[JOHN MCTERNAN ] THE NAZIS WOULD RENT AN ENTIRE TRAIN FROM NEW YORK CITY
AND HERE YOU HAVE THE TRAIN PULLING IN TO CAMP SIEGFRIED IT LOOKS LIKE GERMANY, YOU
WOULD NOT BELIEVE THAT THIS IS AMERICA >>IT LOOKS LIKE SALUTING YEAH, IF YOU HADN'T SEEN
THE PICTURE >>AND RIGHT BELOW IT IS THE NAZI HEADQUARTERS, THAT PICTURE THAT YOU'RE LOOKING
AT NOW IS THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE NAZIS IN AMERICA. >>[JIM BECKA] AND CHRISTIANS ARE
ALSO UNDERSTANDING THEIR HEBRAIC ROOTS, AND I THINK THAT IS WHAT THE CROSSOVER IS DOING,
PUTTING ALL OF THIS TOGETHER AND ITS NEW AND FRESH TO EVERYONE. >> [ANNOUNCER] JUDAISM
101 >>[MITCH] MANY TIMES PEOPLE ASK WHAT IS A JEW, IS IT A RACE, IS IT A PEOPLE, AND IS
IT A CULTURE? >>JEWISH/CHRISTIAN RELATIONS BIBLE FACT OR FICTION? >>[JIM BECKA] THE CROSSOVER
IS REALLY ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD TODAY. IT LOOKS AT
JESUS FROM A PERSPECTIVE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE NEVER LOOKED AT BEFORE, BUT EVERYBODY
WANTS TO SEE IT. I MEAN YOU TURN ON ALL THE CHRISTIAN CHANNELS AND WHAT ARE THEY TALKING
ABOUT? THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT WHY JESUS DID THIS... AND WHY JESUS DID THAT...WHY THE APOSTLES
DO THIS OR THAT...AND THAT IS WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT THE CROSSOVER. THEY ARE ONE OF THE FEW
ORGANIZATIONS THAT ACTUALLY UNDERSTANDS THE BACKGROUND OF WHY JESUS DID WHAT HE DID, BECAUSE
THEY ARE FROM A SIMILAR BACKGROUND AND THAT IS WHAT THE WORLD REALLY WANTS AT THIS PARTICULAR
TIME. >>[ANNOUNCER] HERE AGAIN, MITCH JEROME. >>WELCOME BACK TO THE CROSSOVER, TODAY'S GUEST
IS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY JERUSALEM, MALCOLM HEDDING. AND WE
ARE JUST CONTINUING ON WITH OUR DIALOGUE AND MALCOLM YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE US OVERSEAS
HERE TO CHINA. AND SHARE WITH US A STORY. >>YEAH, I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT THE JESUS
FAMILY, NOW THE JESUS FAMILY COMES OUT OF THE WORK OF THE FAMOUS WATCHMAN NEE. NOW WHEN
THE EXPATRIATE CHURCH WAS FORCED TO LEAVE CHINA BECAUSE OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION, AND
MAO TSE TUNG, IT WAS THIS JESUS FAMILY WHICH BECAME THE BEDROCK OF CHINESE CHRISTIANITY.
NOW TODAY, IN CHINA IN SOME CASES, WHOLE CITIES AND TOWNS HAVE BEEN CONVERTED TO JESUS. I'M
NOT TALKING 100%, BUT I AM TALKING THAT YOU COULD SAY WHILE THIS CITY WAS NOT CHRISTIAN
BEFORE, NOW IT'S CHRISTIAN. >>BECAUSE OF A FEW - A REMNANT. >>BECAUSE OF A FEW AND ALSO
A MASSIVE EVANGELISTIC DROP WHICH IS QUITE PHENOMENAL. AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT
CAME OUT OF WATCHMAN NEE'S HERITAGE. AND THAT SHOWS US SOMETHING; YOU SEE THAT A GODLY HERTIAGE
BRINGS FORTH A RIPE HARVEST IN THE YEARS TO COME. BUT THESE PEOPLE HAVE BIRTHED THIS MINISTRY
AND THIS IS THE MINISTRY THAT TODAY IS DRIVING THE EVANGILIZATION OF CHINA, AND OF COURSE
A TREMENDOUS DESIRE TO BLESS ISRAEL, PRAY FOR ISRAEL AND THEY ARE SO FAR AWAY. THEY'VE
NEVER BEEN TO ISRAEL; THEY'VE NEVER SEEN ISRAEL. ITS VERY UNLIKELY THAT THEY WILL AND YET THERE'S
THIS INCREDIBLE BIRTHING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THEM >>AND YOU ARE SEEING THIS ICEJ IS
HAVING INFLUENCE IN HOW MANY COUNTRIES? >>WE ARE WORKING TODAY IN 114 COUNTRIES. >>HOW
MANY COUNTRIES ARE THERE IN THE WORLD? >>I THINK THERE ARE 200 AND SOMETHING. >>OKAY,
SO IN A HUNDRED AND SOME ODD COUNTRIES THERE'S THIS TOUCH OF PEOPLE FOR ISRAEL >>UM. YEAH.
IT'S PHENOMENAL. >>AND OBVIOUSLY, IT S NOT FROM PREACHING, IT S NOT FROM MAN >>IT S NOT
FROM MAN. I MEAN THERE ARE ISLAND KINGDOMS TODAY, LIKE MICRONESIA, AND FIJI LET ME TELL
YOU, THEY HAVE BEEN SO THROUGHLY EVANGELIZED IN RECENT YEARS. ALMOST WITH A VISITATION
FROM HEAVEN THAT IS QUITE UNBELIEVABLE, BUT WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE THEY DON'T
GET INTO THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA BUT... >>NOW YOU JUST SAID THIS, MICRONESIA, WHEREVER THIS
PLACE IS, IS THE ONLY COUNTRY BESIDES THE U.S. THAT WILL STAND IN FRONT OF THE U.N.
AND VOTE FOR ISRAEL. >>YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. YES, STAND UP. THAT'S RIGHT. THEY ARE A SOUTH
PACIFIC ISLAND. >>AND HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? THIS LITTLE NOTHING COUNTRY OUT OF NOWHERE
HAS A BACKBONE FOR ISRAEL. >> YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. AND A FEW YEARS AGO I TRAVELED WITHIN
THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND I WAS INVITED TO ESTONIA YOU KNOW, ESTONIA IS A SMALL COUNTRY,
DOMINATED BY THE SOVIETS. IN FACT THE ESTONIAN CHRISTIAN BEGAN THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM.
DID YOU KNOW THAT? TWO VERY BRAVE ESTONIAN CHRISTIANS IN THE OLD CITY OF TALLINN, WHO
USED A RADIO STATION TO RALLY THE CHRISTIANS IN A MASSIVE PEACEFUL PROTEST AGAINST THE
RUSSIAN OCCUPIERS. AND THEY BROUGHT THEM OUT IN THEIR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ON THE STREETS
OF TALLINN, AND THEY ACTUALLY SAID, ALMOST, KILL US, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT LEAVING, YOU ARE
GOING TO HAVE TO KILL US. >>WOW >>AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO USE VIOLENCE WE'RE JUST GOING
TO STAND AND PRAY, NOW WE INVITE YOU TO DRIVE OVER US OR KILL US WITH YOUR TANKS OR LEAVE.
>>UM INTERESTING WOW. >>AND THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE MOVEMENT IN TALLINN. NOW THAT MOVEMENT
IN TALLINN, STRANGELY ENOUGH IS UNDERGIRDED BY A PHENOMENAL LOVE FOR ISRAEL. SO, I WAS
INVITED, I'VE BEEN THERE A FEW TIMES, BUT A FEW YEARS AGO I WAS INVITED TO ADDRESS THE
PARLIAMENT. NOW ESTONIA HAS RECENTLY UH JOINED THE EUROPEAN UNION, SO NO MATTER HOW SMALL
A COUNTY IS, Its FELT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION IS AS POWERFUL AS THE REST. >>EQUAL TO...
>>THAT'S RIGHT, SO I REMINDED THEM OF THEIR HUGE RESPONSIBILITY >>YES >>TO USE THIS OPPORTUNITY
TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT BY ISRAEL. SO THESE ARE REMARKABLE TIMES. TO OUR CHRISTIAN VIEWERS,
I'D LIKE TO SAY THE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY EXISTS AS YOUR FEET AND YOUR ARMS
AND YOUR VOICE AND YOUR HEART AND YOUR EYES ENGAGING THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND DEMONSTRATING
TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL THAT THEY ARE CERTAINLY NOT ALONE. THAT THERE ARE MILLIONS OF CHRISTIANS
WORLDWIDE WHO BELIEVE THAT YOUR RESTORATION IS ABSOLUTELY BIBLICAL, IT IS NOT AN ACT OF
COINCIDENCE, OF POLITICAL CHANCE, BUT CERTAINLY AN ACT OF GOD AND THESE CHRISTIANS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD ARE ISRAEL'S BEST FRIENDS >>GOD BLESS YOU MALCOLM AND THE ICEJ FOR THE WORKS
THAT YOU PEOPLE DO OUT THERE, STANDING BOLD AND STRONG FOR ISRAEL. WE ARE GLAD YOU CAME
ON OUR SHOW MAYBE WE CAN DO THIS AGAIN. >>THANK YOU MITCH, GOD BLESS YOU. >>[ROZALIE] THANK
YOU FOR JOINING US ON TODAY'S SHOW. WE HOPE IT MINISTERED TO YOU. AS THE WORLD DEMONIZES
ISRAEL AND TURNS AGAINST HER, WE THE REMNANT MUST STAND AND SPEAK ON HER BEHALF AND BE
THERE FOR HER PEOPLE. ITS WHAT THE LORD ALMIGHTY REQUIRES. THE JEWISH PEOPLE CONSTITUTE THE
ETERNAL PLAN OF GOD. THAT'S ALL FOR THIS WEEK, COME BACK AGAIN NEXT WEEK AS WE OFFER OUR
HEARTS AND HANDS TO REUNITE JEWS AND CHRISTIAN THROUGH THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB
ON THE CROSSOVER. >>[MITCH] REMEMBER THESE ARE PROPHETIC TIMES AND GOD IS AT WORK. >>[ROZALIE]
SHALOM >>[MITCH] SHALOM >>>> JOIN MITCH AND ROZALIE AS THEY REACH AN EVER GROWING WORLDWIDE
AUDIENCE THROUGH THE CROSSOVER. WE INVITE YOU TO BECOME A CROSSOVER PARTNER RIGHT NOW
BY CALLING THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN. FOR YOUR MONTHLY GIFT OF $30 OR MORE YOU WILL
RECEIVE THE CROSSOVER PARTNERSHIP PACK WHICH INCLUDES A DVD OF TODAY'S PROGRAM, A PERSONAL
GREETING AND PRAYER MESSAGE FROM MITCH AND ROZALIE, MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CROSSOVER
PROJECT. AS YOU CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE CROSSOVER EACH MONTH YOU WILL RECEIVE A NEW CROSSOVER
DVD PLUS A MINISTRY REPORT, AND YOUR NAME WILL BE ADDED TO OUR HEALING ROOM. CALL NOW
AND JOIN THE GROWING FAMILY OF CROSSOVER PARTNERS. {Melissa} 28:30 A CHRISTIAN VOICE FOR ISRAEL
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