An Interview on the Tree of Life Bible

An amazing story about an amazing Bible. The tree of life you want to hear this stage for the line of fire with your host activist and author, international speaker and theologians Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire valves like always 866-34-TRUTH that's 866-34-TRUTH your Jim is Dr. Michael Brown friends.

We are gonna have a fascinating discussion today, but not just a fascinating discussion where you get in the word and not only are we going to get the word we are gonna open some things up. They can encourage you about dreams and visions in your own heart, this is Michael Brown you tune into the line of fire number to call 866-34-TRUTH. If you have a Bible translation related question specifically if your owner of the tree of life version and have a question, 866-348-7884. I'm sitting here with Donnie or Greenberg, and Johnny is the visionary behind the tree of life Bible and just wanted give you a quick intro as to how we met her husband Mark is messianic Jewish rabbi, and I was teaching for messianic Jewish leaders. A special seminar so was in intensive college level course will be pretty much went all day long so morning afternoon all day and then as soon as we were done I would have to then go do my radio show which life I used to be at night and it was a long day, lunch time if I could get a break and be alone for little while, and you did it well. This, dear sister, whom I didn't know personally.

It is said she had to talk to me about a Bible translation project it's had to talk with me and I she seems stunned that I might not have time.

It was almost like that with consistent talks of like what what I'm thinking. Do you understand what a schedule like this is plus I have all this other stuff to do.

In addition, so she was, not just persistent and so full of faith. We talked in too much of this project and I thought how in the world. I mean is this is Jesus, a wife or mother sheets is a Bible translator. She's not a linguist got this vision have an end and for family Bible and to get the whole family back in Scripture while friends. The Bible is not 10 years old. It is growing in influence. It is widely circulated. It had an incredible team of scholars I had the joy of being part of it.

So we'll talk about this face-to-face down your walk into the program. Thanks so much for joining us today thinking so much for having its writing to be here right so you remember that that first visit.

How in the world did you get this vision. I mean, where did it come from, I my son came home from school one day we had to start a congregation to kiss Mark and my little seven-year-old boy came home and he said on non-you know what why did the Jews hate Jesus and I was stunned being my husband was unbelieving Jewish man and I select at who said that and he said is a will and basically said is just that inevitably we are Bible in school there just the Jews are just some madam and that's when I realized that in his little mind and his little world thing a Jewish child learning about Jesus.

The only time he heard the word the Jews in the New Testament is when they were angry, and something had to change something just something really struck me miscarriages had to change. We needed a Bible for our kids. Now there there is the complete Jewish Bible. Great work by Dr. David Stern, the pioneer work. That's why the use of the mess and equipment was just with him a couple months back and in Israel so that has tremendous value. Absolute island and is really help people understand you switch the faith and yet you felt there was a need for something new and different. What was it that you were looking for what I thinking I said I did children's program and curriculum called golden apples using the CJB using the complete Jewish Bible had such faith in that translation related birth entire movement of congregations on the just like it says, amen, amen. In the Bible are, verily, verily, there's a beginning and there's an end when there's a whole sentence and we needed a conclusion to this movement that had started we needed a I destination and the destination wasn't that just we would be a community faith that our children come to faith so I want a Bible that said Messiah Yeshua because there the complete Jewish Bible has so many key break terms. It was such at college level that it wasn't wasn't doable for our children so we just need something that parents and kids could be together. And then there's a specific vision the way you've laid out the vision for the tree of life Bible so the TLV is its know and friends. It's it's all over. I really get it. It's you that you version on your phone your Bible Gateway it's out there it's an established version Baker books were the most respected Christian publishers publishes it is well attacked so and it's got your different additions.

Large print is a faculty but that the minute. Yeah it that I never had appreciation for large print to recently yeah, but anyway you have a specific version. You know us as it would read like this one version but have this quality of this. What was kind of the formula that you came up with while we put together 16 key principles we went to the leaders in our community we gathered 15 organizations raised in total $4 million to, to put it together but what the formula for a was that we wanted to be as accurate as the King James exit Ms. Akers NSP as reverent as the King James as readable as the NIV that was where I felt like our parameter was we want to be taken seriously as a translation we had to start from scratch art so as accurate as the NASB, so that's famous for for not the doesn't read that beautifully but really captures the nuances of the Greek, especially the Hebrew as well so it's it's very accurate is the ending we use the same methodology that they did in italicizing words to cause you to pay attention in the NASB, they'll italicize a word that isn't in there that they've added to bring clarity in our Bible we transliterated Hebrew words that we thought would expand the definition instead of adding more words got it right so the accuracy of the NSP than the reference of the King James which city I grew up reading that in the Lord must first say read it for years. So there's a majesty about as unfortunate languages change a lot over the centuries, so it's not as readable mouth and then the NIV that's what I preached at her for years because it reads so well, that's right, will the reverence that we wanted so much from the King James is simply stated in just capitalizing pronouns. I grew up with the NIV and in my early years of being a believer and it's so readable and awesome.

I love reading is just that it doesn't capitalize pronouns and so sometimes you can read and not know who's speaking, to whom, and man makes a difference.

Got it. Got it right. So friends tree of life version. Donnie Greenberg gets this vision and her heart's thinking about kids is think about whole families having this Bible that can be read and then how did how do you go about doing this so it's it's one thing to have a vision to have a dream love us do, but how in the world. Now you go about doing the simulated team of scholars you need messianic Jewish scholars of that background, you need scholars trying to Christian seminaries who have that background. So how in the world did you go up putting together a team.

When I started getting a tin cup and talking to my girlfriend and I really did.

We went and met a five rabbis lives met in New York City and talks about what it would take to get a Bible for the children, so he said as long as I got Messiah Shayla Jesus Christ is Messiah issuing the right and then we got the book order change back to the Jewish book order of the Old Testament.

We felt like if we could just do that would be good. Simply let us do that right nobody what we had to start from scratch and that was unexpected, but the way we do that is when I went to those women and gather them from the different messianic groups than I did. After that, as I did that with theologians and then I did that with the ministry presidents so I had a ministry board. Board of reference that was 15 different organizations that each gave me a first check of $5000 and then asked me to provide five of them that I really loved and felt like were umbrella organizations like the international alliance and the union amassed them each to give me a theologian.

Sammy got theologians to come on board at one for each of the five groups and then it just started going like crazy. I couldn't believe what happened yet. And then once I would hear when you when you talk to me and Prof. so-and-so's going to be involved with fusion be involved. It's good enough for me than some of her blogs can be of all that was good enough for them so so in the end, how how many scholars, professors, theologians to drink up. Working with PhD's 32 and then there's another there is at least 70 altogether that work together we say 70 because I I counted up one day and I stopped counting after seven. You figure that was good. By God's standards and and what kind of become a testimonies reports to hear people using this I am astounded to tell you that just on you version alone with got 5000 new people opening in every month had thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people reading it and people are using in seminaries and the King the Kings University at Gateway. One of our very proud and significant sponsors they really just Christian started jumping on board.

Jewish people started jumping on board families, family businesses, just it's amazing to me how many people started to care. When it was about the children. I really think that's what motivated people is everyone is really concerned about the future of our children and we want our children to know God and to open up the Bible for themselves and read God's word and I remember when we were at a meeting were a number of the participants translators and those working in the Bible came together in Dallas and maybe in the last day, but we did a family worship time.

It was with your family based would you do with your family. We did all together so it's interesting that I think it may be John Maxwell who said that we teach what we know but we reproduce who we are. So this whole family burden that you and your family have lived out you have you've really reproduce that and out others or reading the Bible in a family way yet I just think it's amazing that we we kind of have gotten away from the word can write think this is my kin that comes from the right kind hello. We reproduce after our own kind and I think you really right about that that the the basic in the lowest common denominator, simplest, simplest form of of understanding God is in your family dynamics.

Yeah, right friends, go to my website.

Asked Dr. Brown – could your brown.org and check out this beautifully produced big print TLV Bible so we know we got a lot of folks that follow are ministries that are late teens and 20s and 30s, but we we know yet. A lot of folks 40s 50s 60s 70s even older. So this is the kind of Bible that that you read now beautiful large print TLV. So here's what you can expect it'll give you good Jewish background you feel without overwhelming overture not going to need a glossary to to look up every other term. There's a glossary in the boxes. What we learn some Hebrew concepts but will perform with that. So Miriam knew she was mother. Yeah, that's the way she's going to be known and and Jacob.

Jacob instead of James.

That's what he's can be no reference appropriate to raw instead of law was talking about that the trawl of Moses and in the principles of troth that's going to be there and it not only so if there's a verse from the Hebrew Scriptures quoted in the new covenant writings. You'll get the feel of that in the translation as well. So check this out and that is why it's summertime it Hanukkah gifts Christmas gifts stock up on birthday present Esther Corrado we come back, sure special director all the light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution paradigm is Dr. Michael Brown here about something. Don't wander far and I'm about effusion number 866-348-7884 and sit with Dr. Greenberg she is the visionary behind the tree of life Bible, a great messianic translation unique, never before done a team of scholars, theologians and messianic leaders putting their heads and hearts together to come up with a unique translation, vivid, powerful moving and dominant. One of the interesting things is that reverencing son of God that that we have in the TLV, then I will sort it Hebrew for son of God, but why that was something that you was very important. Looking at this in kind of a holistic, revelatory way is God is revealing himself through Scripture what what was so important was amazed and the fact that when Jesus issue arrives in somebody's life a change. He teaches everything changes the way you see everything about your past and the way you can believe God for your future. So when we used. We learned what use the word son of God in the New Testament.

It was really important first to make it clear to people that son of God.

We hear it today. You think of the actual son of God, but that's actually a term for Messiah. So when they were saying son of God to one another in the New Testament, there was it was a veiled term, it wasn't obvious term. So when you come to faith in you, you realize the issue is you we wanted to keep him veiled purposely so that as he revealed himself to his disciples, you would live that real-time revelation while studying and that is just been so life-changing for so many people.] Because along the way he was telling his disciples don't tell anyone, so he he announces things in certain ways.

In the gospel writers on one hand, just put everything right after this is who is within people discover along the way or it listen friends.

I'm gonna hold this in my hand there are hold it down right in my hand okay, but you may be able to see some of the summer screen yet, you may not okay because of the color, but it is one of the most beautifully produced nothing or vicinity more beautiful tree of life version family Bible.

Hebrew inscription around the site its way to the moxa came by the it's a tree of life to those who take hold of it from Proverbs 8. Hence, the tree of life. Name of the ultimate family Bible, so we got one copy here. Here's what we going to do this is for one particular viewer or listener today. We have a couple we are bringing over from Israel.

They are messianic Jews no understanding Israel is the 6 million Jews in Israel messianic Jews or maybe 25 maybe 30,000. The population that's about 1% not even talk about 1/2 of 1% your Toyota half of 1/2 1%.

They are bold they are on fire for the Lord, the wife became famous in Israel kind of the America's Got Talent American idols kind of thing will they haven't Israel and and she was really popular and then our whole testimony got out with her family about her being a believers before she was married she is gifted in video work. We are bringing them here to America for nine months we we have raised a good amount of the money we need to raise 15,000 more to get them here to take care of them while they're here and then she is a video expert.

He's going to help us develop a lot of our Jewish outreach video, so he's going to do a tremendous amount of work with us while they are both immersed in our school for an intensive nine-month program so what we want to do today is is with this Bible we wanted. We want it give you the opportunity to partner with us to bring this couple to America. We just need to raise 15,000 more and it is done so Donnie won't want to share with what's on your heart for us to do the human. Thank you.

Michael is unkindly thankful for your your availability and your willingness to work with us to get this translation done it literally just wouldn't of been done had the Lord not moved on your heart and heart of so many people to bring this about where another one of those divine intersections right now God is using this ministry to reach out far beyond sexually reaching into New York City where Michael and I and my husband and so many of us that have come to faith in Jewish believers are from New York and your church is making tremendous strides and God has so much more for this ministry and you can even imagine God's got a plan and a purpose and at this divine intersection I was coming here today asking the Lord, you know, I really want to see this mission get blessed by God.

I want Michael to understand that God is used in powerfully for a move of God that we never even anticipated and this is the word of the Lord in this season, so this word speaks to you. I pray that you would just carefully consider, ponder, before the Lord of God is calling you to help this young couple from Israel got here because this is the purpose of this translation this hour. This is the 10 year anniversary this very month this July is the 10 year anniversary, and here we are together in the sacred moment in the word of the Lord to me was about this translation from Zephaniah 39 it says then I will restore to the people. Pure speech so that all of them may call upon the name of the Lord and serve him shoulder to shoulder.

Literally, shoulder to shoulder. God wants to bring these young people from Israel to work with Dr. Brown for the purposes of pushing forth his agenda which goes on to say on that day. We said to Jerusalem in verse 16. Have no fear of Zion, do not let your hands fell limp.

I know your God is in your midst, a mighty Savior.

He will delight over you with joy, he will quiet you with his love, he will dance for joy over you with singing. I will gather you, I will gather those among you, I just want you know that the Lord is doing miraculous things in our midst right now.

When the Jewish people take the Torah and its back on their shoulders and their back on the journey of Israel together as a people likely are around this TLV. This is a moment in time. That's only happened so many times in history.

Dr. Brown happened during Josiah's time. They rediscover the Torah and habitant MIS time with Ezra where it is supernatural time right now where the Jews have been in trust of the things of God are walking with the TLV and presenting it to the world. This is a supernatural time so I would encourage you here feeling called to help Dr. Brown ministries. We want you know it's funny Dr. I would just ask that you pray in ponder before the Lord and and and write a prayer inside this Bible because this is going to represent someone else's divine intersection in their journey because I'm telling is one of faith. God did a miracle for me and just like Elizabeth and Mary in meeting each other, you know, she said. I rejoice with you. I rejoice with what God is doing. Dr. I ministries now want to stand in faith that $15,000 immense of French interest were to do again.

One of the most magnificent Bibles will oversee the beautiful hardcover 9 pounds and hundred and one artistic drawings from scratch Jewish believers that the drawings are starting that the really really really are so were asking if if you are the one partner with us for the $10,000 gift is going directly to bring a couple of her from Israel to train them for one year and then to send them back to evangelize the lost sheep of the house of Israel it is and they can do it. They are Israelis there fluent Hebrew speakers. This is this is who they are. This is their identity and in addition to that the benefit of intensive Jewish outreach work via video. While the couple is here with us.

So usually do want on to highlight that forces of either shredded in this and this Bible and then I'm really going to pray whoever you are to give us $10,000 gift really going to pray that the that we get the right first for you just to highlight that and I want to pray a prayer and put it in the Bible for the sake thank you were partnering together for the salvation of the lost sheep. The house was human want of friends. We don't use gimmicks, no hype, so I'm telling you exactly where the money is going and this is our way of saying this is a substantial gift or gift to you, and together.

Just think of it together.

We get to see many Israelis in the kingdom of heaven forever through your generosity so go to my website now asked Dr. Brown.org SK DR Brown.org and click on donate, you just designate the gift and then we will make sure that this gets to you personalized, unique, and again it's it's it's it's a stunning translation. You will probably display for decades to come. You'll have the joy of knowing that you help ordinances for the salvation of the Jewish people so asked Dr. Brown click on donate or you can call one 800 all right now. Just call 866-34-TRUTH 866-34-TRUTH 784 and we can contact you if that would be helpful. 866-34-TRUTH 7884. Thank you in advance for standing with us and everyone else ahead. I just want to help with this project.

I want to help bring them over the one-time gift you can do that on the website is will they limit reach you from the TLV. The first chapter of John's Gospel, the word became flesh and tabernacle among us. We looked upon as glory glory of the one and only from the father full of grace and truth. John testifies about. He cried out, saying, this is he of whom I said, the one who comes after me as above me because he existed before me and of his fullness. We've all received grace on top of grace to raw was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Yeshua the Messiah.

No one is ever seen God with the one and only God and the father's embrace has made him known hate just because with me from a moment father as we have been working to bring this couple over from Israel to train them and send them back were asking you to back her efforts were. I thank you for the funds that have come in. Thus, for I'm asked the Lord to bring in the rest and little whoever you move on to give and stand with us. May they have that sense of joy and affirmation of heaven. For this moment came into the kingdom to partner together for the harvest of souls in Israel and Laura continue to use this translation to open the hearts and minds of many Jewish people both in the faith and outside the faith. We ask it in Yeshua's name on the right friends again asked Dr. Brown.org SK DR Brown, double-click on donate to stand together, we come back we can start answering some questions that readers have about the tree of life version by local error on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown.

Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution of your exam. Dr. Michael Brown about the most installation of the book of Job from a Job commentary to come out late next year and that that was painstaking of Job is a very challenging book in Hebrew, but boy just agonizing over line after line out to do a whole Bible translation Hebrew the white American Greek and and to know the nuances of how the language is used