Our Guest Eric Morey
Sid: My guest by way of telephone I’m speaking to him at his home in Tiberias, Israel is Eric Morey. Eric Morey 19 years ago made Aliyah to Israel from Denver, Colorado. He’s from a non-Jewish background with his wife Terri who is from a Jewish background, they’re really representing the One New Man. This past Passover my wife Joy and I were in Israel and we got together with the Morey’s and he showed me his brand new Zechariah Prophecy Calendar. It’s a 16 month calendar, a Jewish calendar but also a regular calendar too. It’s large it’s 13.5 inches by, and when it’s open, 26 inches because half of it is a beautiful artwork by a Russian Israeli that… but the thing that is so unusual Eric is the… whatever process you used the vibrancy of the colors you don’t expect to see this in a calendar.
Eric: Well we’ve… Sid there’s some very good printers here in Israel and we use one of the best. We’ve watched the process very carefully and it really is gorgeous. The paintings are gorgeous but the printing and the reproduction of them is really outstanding; they just did excellent job and I’m so pleased about it, I’m just very pleased about it. Something that’s really shocking to me too actually the calendar page itself you think well “What’s a calendar page it’s a bunch of squares?” But this calendar page is actually beautiful and it has a beautiful beige background with the normal days of the week, then for the Sabbath which is so important here in the land is a darker beige color so it stands out because the Sabbath is another day, it’s a different day, it’s the 7th day of the week. Then the holidays are yet another color. Some months like if you look at September, the first month of the calendar, or April 2003, they’re filled with this bluish-purple holidays and filled with scriptures that they read on those holidays in all the synagogues in the world.
Sid: I’d like you… I mean the artwork is so beautiful people should buy this just for the artwork. I would like you to teach a little from the book of Zechariah in reference to some of these paintings.
Eric: These paintings have been selected from the whole book going back to chapter 4 and it starts actually in chapter 2 where the Lord says, quoting Zechariah but he’s quoting the Lord. “For I sayeth the Lord will be a wall of fire round about will be the glory in the midst of her. For he that toucheth you Jerusalem, Israel, the Jewish people, touches the apple of His eye.” That’s where it begins. It goes through the whole book of Zechariah and when we get to chapter 12 it gets more intense because we’re talking about current events here, we’re talking about the nations of the world coming against Jerusalem we see it happening before our eyes. Then shortly thereafter, as the nations of the world actually attack and conquer Jerusalem. Then the Messiah comes and He is standing on the Mount of Olives and the Jewish people are coming out of the pouring. The city is burning in the background because its been destroyed, it says it in Zechariah 14 but the Jews are coming out and Yeshua is standing on the Mount of Olives and He’s got a sword in His hand because it says “He has come to defend His people.” He’s got a crown on His head because He’s their King and they’re recognizing Him. He’s got the 5 wounds in his wrists and His ankles and His side you can see the blood on His robe. It says “They shall look upon Me” God is speaking. “Me whom they have pierced they shall mourn for Him as one mourneth for His only Son.” So this is the great climax of our life here in Israel is to see this happen. We are looking forward to this day…
Sid: I have to ask you, do you believe that you’re going to see this with your eyes? What do you really believe in your heart of hearts Eric?
Eric: You mean in terms of the rapture and all of that?
Sid: In terms of these end time events we are reading about in Zechariah.
Eric: Well I believe we are quite close, you know I’m not naming dates or anything but I believe we are quite close because specifically because you see Israel has been rebirthed as a nation, that’s a unique historical event. You see that the nations are gathering around Jerusalem they cannot ignore… why does CNN care so much about what goes on in this ridiculous dusty little place called Israel? Six-million people, twenty-thousand square miles of nothing and they can’t take their eyes off of it. Every headline of every news program has to do with Israel. Why?
Sid: Look at all the time the White House is occupied with this little dot on the map.
Eric: Hmm hm.
Sid: Israel is the size of Rhode Island.
Eric: It’s all the United Nations can talk about. They can’t talk about anything else.
Sid: I mean that alone would have to intrigue a non-believer. I mean that’s a good apologetic question, why?
Eric: Why? Exactly.
Sid: I mean look at how many people have died in the Sudan, you don’t see so much talk about it, so much outrage of all the… what over a million Christians have been massacred by Muslims there and you don’t see the same outrage. I mean you’ve got to say “There’s something supernatural about Israel.”
Eric: Exactly, something incredible supernatural about Israel, something totally obviously supernatural about Israel. How can you positively ignore it?
Sid: Well teach a little bit more from Zechariah.
Eric: As they begin to recognize in Zechariah 14, Jews are coming out of Jerusalem, and this is an amazing scene. It’s all in this painting this painting is exquisite. You saw it in our home hanging on our wall in our dining room, that’s Zechariah 12:10. Then we link it with 14 because we believe it happens while He’s standing on the Mount of Olives. Then in 14 goes on 5, 4 and 5 and it says “The Mount of Olives will cleave in the midst,” this is a famous passage we know it’s going to happen and as you pointed out earlier there’s actually a geological faults on the Mount of Olives that would allow this to happen. Some cataclysmic event will set it off but the fault lines are there on the Mount of Olives. The mountain splits open to the north and to the south. The refugees coming out of Jerusalem will flee through the Mount of Olives through this crack in the Mount of Olives to the valley, it calls it the Valley of the Mountain, to a place called Azahela. Now there is no historical place called Azal and there is no modern place called Azal. Fact is in Azal in Hebrew means the strength or the power of God.
Sid: Hmm.
Eric: Hozel, they’re fleeing toward the power or the strength of God. Then the very next verse says “And the Lord will come and all the holy ones with thee.” It’s the second coming of Christ all of this is happening very very rapidly. It’s like fast forward it’s all happening very rapidly. Then it all slows down and you get this incredible millennium scene and it says “It shall be in that day” this is Zechariah 14:8. “In that day living waters show go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward towards the former sea and half of them towards hinder sea.” In other words they’re going to flow east and west, the former sea one of them being the Mediterranean one of them being the Dead Sea. Toward the hinder sea and summer and winter shall it be. So we’ve got this incredible painting of the Mount of Olives is split open, you see Jerusalem and the waters are coming out from under the eastern gate flowing down through this valley made in the Mount of Olives and on down towards the Dead Sea. So the Dead Sea will actually become fresh water there will be fish down there. You know today I don’t know if you’ve read the last few days… you know I always take these things with a grain of salt. I like to check them out about 15 times because there’s so much hysteria that goes… but there are actually water coming out of the Wailing Wall.
Sid: Hmm.
Eric: Started a few days ago. There’s water seeping out between some of the Herodian stones in the Wailing Wall. You can imagine what the Jerusalem syndrome prophetic types are saying about that. The archeologists are saying “Well probably some pipe broken in there and we better stop it up fast.” It’s actually water leaking out now on the face of the Wailing Wall on the Temple Mount. Well this is going to happen water is going to come out from under the Temple Mount, huge amounts of it and it’s going to flow towards the east and it’s going to flow towards the west. Then… this is such an idealic scene, and then finally in Zechariah 14:16 very very last verses in the prophecy of Zechariah. It says “And it shall come to pass that everyone that is left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem.” Whoever is left, I mean you think Israel is… you think Jerusalem is left is left defenseless? No, the Lord Himself will defend Jerusalem. Whoever survives that shall even go up year to year to worship the King the Lord of Hosts and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
Sid: This artwork is so magnificent Mishpocha.
