 Welcome to Hope Today. It is a fantastic Monday. I'm here with my friend, Sydney. I'm Amanda, and we are grateful that you today would find confident hope in Christ, as it says in Romans 12. I love that confident hope in Christ. That's what it's all about. And you know, today is Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement. And just up in a moment, Tom and I had a chance to have a conversation with Rabbi Jason Sobel about the spiritual significance of the day. He also shared the signs and secrets of the Messiah from both the Old and the New Testament. Amanda, there is so much revelation when it comes to things of Jesus and how, you know, there's all these mysteries and things that are hidden. And it's so incredible that we're able to do this. When I hear rabbis or people who have rabbinical studies and then they also understand Jesus as Messiah, it amazes me. And it literally hearing them and all the dots connecting does build my confident hope in Christ. Like you know, God is a God who fails not. He is the one in control. Like we are on God's timetable. And if we can miss it, if we don't take time to learn from like rabbis, like today, what we're about to hear. And I like how you're talking about like connecting the dots. And you know, we just want to for a moment just highlight Yom Kippur. So just a little background on it. It is the day of Atonement. Today is considered the holiest day on the Jewish and the Hebrew calendar. And you know, Jesus Christ is our Atonement for our sins. It says it in 1 John. And here's a little background that I did. So if you're wondering, where is this in the Bible? So when Moses, it dates back to Moses when there was the 10 commandments and he broke it after the Israelites made the golden calf. Well, God called for the day of Atonement after Moses made the 10 commandments again. And so that's where we get it in the Bible. And this is a day of repentance. It's a day of just really being introspective. And you know, I just think about Jesus, you know, for us. So we think about how his blood was shed for us on Calvary and that he rose again. But if it wasn't for Jesus, if he didn't die for us, if he didn't raise again, like, I can't even imagine what life would be like. So today we just encourage you as it's Yom Kippur day of Atonement just to be introspective and to seek your heart and maybe those hidden sins and things that are inside of you and within you that you need to just lay them before Yeshua, before Jesus. Amen, Sydney. That is such a powerful word. And I think of the generations and how well the Israelite people really told their children. You know, they built altars and they, the Lord told them to, so that they would tell the story. What happened there in that place? And I feel like we have to improve on that where we're sharing the good news of Jesus in our life, but his word with the next generation, talking about that, my husband and I, this past weekend had the opportunity to speak at a young adults retreat. And the one made me a little bracelet. I was like, oh, just, but their heart for God and how they're seeking him and desiring them. And we were in Romans 12. And let me tell you, Pastor Dave quizzed us and you had to know word for word. And yeah, the guys won over the girls, but let me tell you, we gave a great fight. So it was just good to, you know, impact the next generation. And I believe that's so important and vital today. Yeah, the generation should know God. But when we come back in 60 seconds, the signs and secrets of the Messiah with Rabbi Jason Sobo, we'll be back right back. You don't want to miss it. Every now and then life gets the best of us. And we need a reminder to keep calm and trust God. 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After years of seeking and studying, he encountered God and found his true destiny as a Jewish follower of Jesus of Yeshua. All the traditions Rabbi Sobel grew up with took on a new depth of meaning as God connected ancient wisdom with the teachings of the Messiah. Today is the founder of Fusion Global on New York Times bestselling author, TV host of the program, The Chosen Unveiled. And he brings us his new book, Signs and Secrets of the Messiah, Rabbi Jason Sobel, welcome back to Hope Today. Shalom, thank you for having me. It's great to be with you. Oh, it's wonderful to have you again. So, so good. Listen, I wanna dive into the book in just a second, but I have to ask you, today's Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. What's that mean for you as a believer in the Messiah? Yeah, absolutely. We are in a very important season on the biblical calendar. It began 10 days earlier with Wosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets, which begins, it's the biblical New Year, but it's also a call to return to God to examine our lives. And each of these holidays also have a prophetic significance to it as well. So, practically, Yom Kippur is a day, number one, where we remember the Atonement that has been provided for us through Yeshua, our Messiah. Jewish people at this time are fasting and praying and seeking to get their name inscribed in the book of life, the Sefer Ha'chaim, for another year. But through Messiah, we know our names have been indelibly inscribed in the book of life through faith in Him, not just for one year, but for all of eternity. We don't have to guess, but Yom Kippur finds his ultimate fulfillment in Messiah, but it's not yet fully fulfilled because, A, I still sin, it falls short. So, I need to examine my life and say how can I get to the next level with God growing my faith, become more conformed to His image and likeness? What things do I need to turn from? But also, we're waiting for the day when salvation will come to Israel and the nations into the entire world. So, as long as there's people in the world that don't know Him, as long as my Jewish brothers and sisters don't know Him, Yom Kippur is an important day to fast and pray that God would open hearts and minds to turn to Him. You know, everybody is so important for we're just praying and believing for minds and hearts to be open to Yeshua, to Jesus. There's such prophetic significance with Yom Kippur and even it's now a new year on the Jewish, on the Hebrew calendar, on God's calendar. Can you unpack for us about 5, 7, 8, 4? That's the new year that we're in right now. What does it mean? Yeah, absolutely. Very significant time and season. We just did a whole message in depth on this new year, but this, first of all, this decade that we're in, the 80s, this is 5784 on the Hebrew calendar, the decade of the 80s is the decade of breakthrough. And I believe God is wanting to take us out of Egypt, our places of personal confinement and restriction. And this year of 5784 is the year of the open door. Four in Hebrew is the letter Dahlut. It literally means door. So God is opening doors to opportunities. He's opening the doors to salvation and to do new things in our lives and in the world. I love that. I love the open door. What could be better, right? An open door for so many things. But thank you for sharing that. We wanna talk about your book, Signs and Secrets of the Messiah. Fresh look at the miracles. So let's go right into that first miracle, the wedding at Cana and Jesus turning the water into wine. We've heard about it. We've heard probably different teachings on it. Give us some of the significance that you've discovered in there. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, part of our passion, as you know, is connecting the old and the new so people can see the Bible in high definition in its original context. So the first thing we have to ask is why is the first miracle Jesus did? Yeshua turning the water into wine. Well, think about it. The New Testament is trying to show him, especially the gospels as the promised Messiah who was gonna be a greater than Moses. The first Redeemer. So what was the first miracle Moses did? He turned the water into blood, but Jesus doesn't come to bring death. He comes to bring life that we might have it more abundantly. So he turns the water into wine because wine is a symbol of the Messianic kingdom. Okay, let's keep going on that line. What is the significance of, there's so many things in there. I love Mary asking him before the time and yet he still does it. And then the six water pots, these heavy water pots, they had to go filled all the way to the brim. What's the significance there? Yeah, absolutely, great question. I mean, as you know, in John two, Mary comes to Jesus and says, listen, they've run out of wine. He's like, mom, what does this have to do with me? And what I love is that Mary doesn't take no for an answer, she has what's known as chutzpah. Holy chutzpah, holy boldness, right? She believes her son's gonna act and she's not gonna take no for an answer. And he responds by doing this miracle. And he says, listen, take the stone pots, six of them, fill them to the brim. Every detail in the Bible is there for a reason. So if it says six, there's a reason why it says six. So what's the significance of six? Well, six is a number of men. We were created on the sixth day. In Jewish thought, we fell on the sixth day. Messiah comes to restore everything that was lost. So he does the miracle with the six stone pots of turning the water into wine as a new creation miracle, as a foretaste of the kingdom. The rabbis say that in the kingdom at the marriage supper of the lamb, we're gonna drink wine reserved from the six days of creation. And then when Messiah dies, he dies on Good Friday, which is actually on the biblical calendar, the sixth day of the week. So on the same day we fell is the same day Messiah died on the cross, these he comes to reverse the curse and restore the blessing. Wow, I love that. I love how God takes those things that are fallen and restores them to life. I love that. Let me ask you, just kind of moving into another one. There's so much in here on how they recommend everybody get this book. It's just got so much in it. Let me ask you about the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda. This is a very interesting miracle. What special significance do you see in there? Yeah, just even before that, I think it's important to understand that there is understanding the biblical, historical context, but also how each one of these miracles has a promise for our lives and for our situations and circumstances. So here's this man at the pool of Bethesda hasn't been able to walk for 38 years. And as you all know, I'm a spiritual advisor on the chosen and I love this scene in the chosen, but can't walk for 38 years. And if there's a number again in the Bible, it's there for a reason. What's interesting about the number 38 is according to Deuteronomy chapter two, 38 is the number of years that Israel actually wandered in the wilderness. They were there for 40, but they wandered because of their unbelief for 38 years. And so that's significant because 38 is also the numerical value of the Hebrew word libo, which means his heart. So Hebrew is alphanumeric. That means every number is written with the letter. There's no Roman numerals in the Bible. So his heart equals 38, 38 years of wandering in the wilderness. Yeshua was testing this man to see what was in his heart, 38, so that he didn't have to wander for 38 years and die in the wilderness like Israel did. Yeshua was restoring to this man hope. And he was saying to this man, listen, if you have faith and believe and do what I asked you to do, take up your bat and bat and walk, you will be healed and made whole and walk into your promise, into your future. If you fail the test and don't believe, you'll die like Israel in the wilderness and your unbelief. And all of us have that same choice to make. Maybe you've been stuck in a difficult situation, but the Lord is extending to you an opportunity to get up and to step into a better future than your past. Rav, I love that so much. God is inviting us into these opportunities to step up and to step into him. And speaking like going down the road of numbers, the multiplication, God is a God of multiplication. Can you talk to us about the feeding of the 5,000 and the significance of that with Yeshua? Yeah, absolutely. I love this miracle and it actually does tie in to 5784 as well because in connection to the four, this is the fourth miracle that Jesus performs in the book of John, okay? And what's significant is, why does he do this miracle? Well, first of all, it's trying to show him as the greater than Moses, right? So in a sense, Moses parted the Red Sea, Yeshua walks on the water. Through Moses, God brings manna from heaven, but through Jesus, he multiplies the bread and the fish, five loads and two fish, totally in the number seven. The fact that there were seven is significant. Seven, as we know, is a number of completion, but it's also the number of trust. Think about it for a moment. Seven is about trust in the sense that six days God gave the manna, but they had to collect a double portion that would last for the seventh day as well because they were to do no work on the seventh day. You have the sabbatical year, work the land for six years, let it rest on the seventh. Well, that takes a great faith to say, okay, I'm not gonna work my land and I'm gonna trust that it's gonna bear fruit and I'm going to be fed. So seven is trusting God to possess your promise in face of the impossible and the improbable. There's seven Canaanite peoples in the land of Canaan and the Promised Land. Jericho, they're called to walk around the city seven times on the seventh day, seven time, blow the shofar and the walls will come tumbling down. So it's about trusting God and resting in his promise to do the impossible and to be our provider. I love the seven. When I read that, it blew up in my spirit. I just really just sense, can you just take a moment to speak to that person that's watching right now that they feel like they are in an impossible situation, that they feel like their back is up against the wall. Can you take a moment to speak into somebody who's watching right now that needs to hold on to that truth and the promise of what God says, what he's gonna do, what he's gonna say he did? I just wanna encourage you that he is the same yesterday, today and forever and every problem that you face has a promise attached to it. When you trust God in the midst of the problems, there is a promise that God wants to bring into your life as you are faithful and as you pass the test, he doesn't want you to live out of the lack. He wants you to live out of the overflow. God can do a little with your lot. They brought to them their little, their five loaves and their two fish and by faith they gave it to Jesus, to Yeshua and he multiplied it. And I just declare over you that this should be a season of breakthrough. This should be a season of multiplication and that God should give you the strength to pass the test because he will lift you up as a result. Praise God, amen to that. Let me ask you about a chapter you have towards the back of the book that I think is so significant and important for us. Are these miracles for today? Should we expect to see the same kind of miracles that Jesus did or did they just pass away with the biblical age? Yeah, I mean in signs and secrets of the Messiah we talk about so many of the miracles beginning with the water into wine, signs of secrets of transformation, signs of secrets of healing, signs of secrets of wholeness, multiplication, so many things. But the reality is that part of what we hope this book will do is build in people the faith to believe that God still wants to do miracles, that he still operates in supernatural ways in our lives. I believe we need to take Yeshua Jesus at his word. He said to his disciples, "'Greater things than these you will do.'" And we need to step into that. And I can tell you on a personal level I've seen God do so many miracles. I've seen miracles of multiplication. I've seen miracles of healing. And what God did through the disciples, he still does today and he wants to do through you. Jesus didn't do these miracles operating out of his divinity although he was divine. He didn't do one miracle until he was, until after his baptism when the Holy Spirit came upon him he was tested in the wilderness and then he went out and power the gospel says and word about him spread. We have the same Holy Spirit that raised him from the dead and therefore we have the ability to operate in the supernatural miraculous. You know, for someone who's walked with the Lord for a long time, it's exciting to hear about God wants to do something new. In fact, he talked to you, you mentioned about Nicodemus and the miracle of the new birth. Could you just speak to that? Maybe for a believer though, someone who's like you or I or Sydney have walked with the Lord for a while. What new thing is going to spring forth? What does God want to do new in us? Yeah, I love the miracle. We talk about the, you know, the sign and secrets of new birth. One of the really the greatest miracles, right? Is we don't think of it as a miracle but being born again, having a supernatural spiritual birth is miraculous, right? And so this idea of being born again, the concept really is based out of, you know, Jesus and Nicodemus, you're a teacher in Israel and you don't understand these things. Well, what should he have understood? Well, God birthed Israel twice. He birthed Israel as a family. They went down to Egypt 70 and all, but then he birthed them as a free nation. Egypt means Mitzrayim, it means a womb, it means a place of confinement or restriction. It's like the womb. When the water breaks, that's like the woman's water birthing. When you have the plagues in Egypt, that's like the birth pangs, the labor pangs. When they go through the canal, it's like they're, when they go through the water, it's like they're going through the birth canal and they come out the other side. They are born again as a free people. Listen, we get born again when we believe in Jesus with the promise of eternal life or filled with the Holy spirit. But God wants us to have abundant life. That means he wants to not just save your soul for heaven. He wants you to experience wholeness right now. He wants you to experience spiritual wholeness, relational wholeness, emotional wholeness, physical wholeness. There's a promise of healing and transformation on those four levels because of what Jesus did on the cross and by his resurrection. He wants to do that for you. He wants to do it in you and then he wants to do it through you to bring wholeness and healing and salvation in the lives of other people. And there's no greater joy than being used by God to see that happen. Rabbi, we love what you're just saying about the abundance that God wants us to live in through Yeshua, through Jesus. And as we're wrapping up our time here with you, just really thought of my spirit. Can you just speak the Abrahamic blessing over our viewers in Hebrew for us? Yeah, I just want to pray this prayer. Yivarachranai v'yishmarecha ya'er adonai panave lecha v'kunnecha yisa adonai panave lecha v'yasem lecha shalom. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord cause his face to shine upon you. May the Lord lift up his countenance to you and give you his shalom, nothing missing, nothing broken, healing, wholeness, hope, open doors, expansion, multiplication, abundance, and the name of our Messiah, Sarshalam Yeshua Jesus, the Prince of Peace. Amen. Amen. How wonderful is that? The book is called, Signs and Secrets of the Messiah, a fresh look at the miracles of Jesus. Rabbi Jason Sobel, thank you so much for sharing with us today. Thank you so much for encouraging us today. Hedairah Ba, thank you so much for having me, shalom and blessings. All right, God bless. Wow, was your life just impacted, Sidney, that was so rich, just taking that all in. And I want to go back and ask you a question. What is your confidence in? Today, hearing that, I can place my confidence, my hope in Christ. And we encourage you to do the same. I took notes, Sidney, I was like, oh, this is good stuff. You know, the year of the opened door, these opportunities, but I love that mirror image of what's happening in the Bible and the character of God, happened in the Old Testament in the new. And it's so ties together. And I think there were so many points, but I loved the 38 years that he waited and that that 38 reveals his heart. Like in the waiting and like that, that was the same amount of years that they wandered in the wilderness. Like when you see these miracles, and I never thought of Moses as the first redeemer, but he is who led them out of captivity and Jesus was trying to get them to see him as their redeemer. And it's amazing to me. I'm so grateful that he not only came to save the Jewish people, that he came to save the Gentile. I think my lineage is more along the Gentiles and I am grateful to be grafted in, but I just, you know, I feel today that if you are struggling in that relationship and you're hearing this interview and you're like, you know what, maybe this God of Israel really is the real deal. He is. And that's why we exist here at Cornerstone Television. That's why hope today is so important because we wanna give you that opportunity to connect with God, with your maker. And you might need to pick up your phone at the end of the program and give us a call. Our prayer line, you know, is always available to you to pray with you, but to introduce you to Jesus. So important. Amanda, as you're speaking, something that God put in my heart is that there's a captivity in your heart possibly today. And you know, as this is Yom Kippur, it's the day of atonement. You've heard what Rabbi Jason Sobel was talking about with Jesus, he is the propitiation of our sins if it wasn't for Jesus, we would not have access to the Father. There is no other name by which we can be saved except through Yeshua, through Jesus. And we see like all these connections in the Old Testament, the New, it's fascinating how God was so intricate in the details. And this is a moment that maybe you feel so much captivity in your heart, maybe you're bound by sin, maybe you're bound by mistakes and choices. And today is the day that maybe today you need to go to Jesus and just have a conversation with him, just to pray with him and just beginning to confess, these are the things that I'm doing Jesus. This is the way I'm walking God. And I want to turn away from that life. And I want to walk a life with you. I love that Jesus is the way. I love that Jesus is the truth. And I love that through him we gain new life. And that's what we just want to speak to you today. If that's you today and you want a new life and a new beginning, a new start, you want to start again, that's exactly what this day of atonement is all about through Jesus. That because of him, because he died, he was broken, he was the word that became flesh and he was broken for us. That when we say, I believe in Jesus, we get that eternal gift of salvation but also the gift of life. And so that is our heart for you today to know Yeshua Jesus like never before. And we desire that for you. So if that's you don't delay, I like to hear them say delayed obedience is disobedience. So just be obedient to the calling of the Lord. I would like to end with a scripture from Romans 12 as well. And it tells us to hold tightly to what is good. God's word is good. God's word will never fail you. 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