Caption transcript for Kings and Kingdoms: “Israel’s Future King” (8/8)

• 00:03 ♪♪♪ male announcer: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots," with insightful
• 00:06 Bible teaching from Israel by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:10 This week, Israel and Judah are captured in exile.
• 00:13 So what happens next?
• 00:15 Today, on "Kings and Kingdoms."
• 00:18 ♪♪♪
• 00:28 ♪♪♪
• 00:38 ♪♪♪
• 00:48 ♪♪♪
• 00:58 ♪♪♪
• 01:07 David: Thank you so much for joining us today.
• 01:09 I'm David Hart.
• 01:10 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:12 Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:14 David: This is the last program in this series.
• 01:15 It's all about leaders, about kings.
• 01:17 I think today is about the ultimate King of kings, yes?
• 01:19 Jeffrey: Well, he's certainly gonna emerge out of the story
• 01:21 and it reminds me that leadership hurts sometimes when
• 01:25 I look at this and I think you know what I'm talking about and
• 01:28 I know we do.
• 01:29 There's a price to pay when you stand up for biblical values in
• 01:32 a valueless world.
• 01:34 Kirsten: And that's the crown of a real King, humble.
• 01:37 Jeffrey: That's a real King.
• 01:39 That's the best symbol right there.
• 01:41 Kirsten: That's a humble crown.
• 01:42 Jeffrey: Yes.
• 01:43 David: Right.
• 01:45 Right now we're gonna take you underneath the Mount of Olives
• 01:46 for Dr. Seif's teaching.
• 01:48 Let's go there now.
• 01:49 ♪♪♪
• 01:54 Jeffrey: Let's call this an "Our Jewish
• 01:56 Roots" exclusive.
• 01:59 I think it's fair to say because you're not gonna see this from
• 02:02 many others.
• 02:03 This is a place that most don't frequent unless, perhaps, you
• 02:08 are a Hasidic Jew, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, who lives
• 02:14 in Jerusalem.
• 02:15 Those folk come here to pray.
• 02:19 The reason why they do is 'cause they venerate the site because
• 02:23 here in the Mount of Olives in a cave underground there's a tomb.
• 02:31 There are a number of tombs actually, venerated by the
• 02:34 ultra-Orthodox to be the tombs of Haggai, Zechariah,
• 02:40 and Malachi.
• 02:42 Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.
• 02:44 The reason why they're important for our story is those were
• 02:49 prophetic voices who administered what the Lord put
• 02:54 on their heart during the last days of Old Testament history.
• 03:00 And, oh, the days were fascinating.
• 03:03 Babylonia had exiled the Hebrews in Judea but then Babylonia
• 03:07 itself fell to Persia and the Persians allowed the displaced
• 03:13 Hebrews to come back and rebuild.
• 03:16 There's a new political world, there's a new set of
• 03:19 circumstances, and there are prophetic voices to speak to
• 03:24 the moment.
• 03:26 Let's go to the site venerated as the tomb of the
• 03:29 prophet Malachi.
• 03:32 Let's go in there, and Malachi and Haggai, both are said to
• 03:36 have been laid to rest there.
• 03:38 Let's visit the spot and hear what one of them had to say.
• 03:43 Really, you're gonna love it because it is very, very
• 03:46 interesting and appropriate.
• 03:49 Come with me.
• 03:51 ♪♪♪
• 03:59 Jeffrey: I wanna turn out this light and turn on this one,
• 04:02 in fact.
• 04:04 And as I do so, you know, it feels a little odd coming to you
• 04:09 from tombs.
• 04:11 I don't think I'm disrespecting the prophets who are alleged to
• 04:14 have been interred here because what I'm doing is resurrecting
• 04:18 their voice.
• 04:19 There's an old saying that the long arm of the pen reaches
• 04:22 beyond the grave and that's gonna be the case today when we
• 04:25 consider the prophet Haggai.
• 04:28 As I noted earlier, there are three post exilic prophets right
• 04:32 at the end of the older Testament: Haggai, Zechariah,
• 04:35 and Malachi.
• 04:37 Haggai comes from the Hebrew, "chagh," which means feast or
• 04:40 festival, specifically.
• 04:43 Zechariah or Zachariah speaks of remembering from "zakhar" in
• 04:47 Hebrew, and Malachi comes from "malakh" which means
• 04:52 my messenger.
• 04:54 Interesting story, by the way, as we consider Haggai, a prophet
• 04:58 who ministered during the days of Ezra and Nehemiah and during
• 05:02 the time when Zerubbabel was the first governor and then Ezra
• 05:09 came and then Nehemiah came after and this prophetic word
• 05:14 here about the governor.
• 05:16 It speaks to a political moment and I'm looking at the very end
• 05:20 of Haggai's prophetic word in verse 21: "Say to Zerubbabel,"
• 05:27 and Zerubbabel comes from the Hebrew "zera" which means seed
• 05:33 and Babel because this governor came from Babylonia.
• 05:38 He came from one political circumstance and then he's
• 05:41 transpositioned to be somewhere else.
• 05:45 "Say to him--say to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah," this is the
• 05:50 new fledgling colony of Judah, "I am going to shake the heavens
• 05:56 and the earth, and I will overturn the throne of kingdoms
• 06:01 and destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations."
• 06:07 That's a very strong word.
• 06:09 In the Hebrew Bible, the Lord is referred to by a number of
• 06:12 names: Adonai-Tzva'ot is one of them, the "Lord of the armies."
• 06:17 There's a word, a theological term: "omnipotent," that
• 06:21 is, all-powerful.
• 06:23 One can set up political structures and they tumble.
• 06:27 God can displace persons.
• 06:31 He can displace nations.
• 06:33 He can replace people.
• 06:35 He can place people to accomplish his own purposes.
• 06:38 That's what he's saying here.
• 06:40 And he is behind this governor because the governor is being
• 06:44 faithful to him.
• 06:46 And isn't that what we want of leaders, by the way?
• 06:49 We want leaders to be just, equitable, fair, and righteous,
• 06:54 and then we want the good Lord to be working behind the leader
• 06:58 to accomplish good purposes on the earth.
• 07:00 When we cast our vote for leaders, I really do think that
• 07:03 we want to be on the side of the Lord.
• 07:07 We want to wrestle with the question when we hear parties,
• 07:12 platforms, and people, we wanna know what best comports with
• 07:16 biblical vision in order to help ensure that God's going to bless
• 07:21 the endeavor.
• 07:23 Well, here, that is not in question because there's a
• 07:26 prophetic word to the governor, "Look, I'm going to be with
• 07:28 you," but not just that.
• 07:31 If you'll pivot to the very end in verse 23, "On that day," and
• 07:36 then inserted in here parenthetically, "it is a
• 07:40 declaration of Adonai-Tzva'ot," that is, the Lord of the armies,
• 07:44 the Lord of hosts.
• 07:46 That is language that portrays a God of strength, power to move
• 07:51 nations and circumstance.
• 07:53 It is a declaration.
• 07:54 He says, "I will take you, Zerubbabel, my servant," and
• 08:00 then again it's almost superfluous.
• 08:04 It is a declaration of the Lord, that is to say God himself is
• 08:08 saying in no uncertain terms, "It's coming through a prophetic
• 08:11 word that I am going to be with you," and he says, "I will set
• 08:16 you like a signet ring."
• 08:20 Now, throughout this series, we've employed various kinds of
• 08:23 regal paraphernalia, specifically a crown and a
• 08:28 scepter and you've seen some robes.
• 08:31 The signet ring, again, it's whoever carries that ring and
• 08:35 employs the seal, this is an attestation of the will and the
• 08:40 law of the magistrate and here, in effect, this governor is
• 08:48 likened to God's seal.
• 08:52 And let me just say when we think of kings and kingdoms,
• 08:55 that's what we want with people who hold power, who we give
• 08:58 power to.
• 09:00 We want them to have God's blessings, to have his stamp in
• 09:05 what they do, which is the reason why, throughout the
• 09:08 series I've stressed, we want leaders.
• 09:10 We wanna choose leaders who comport with biblical vision and
• 09:15 virtue to enhance the chance of God's being behind them and
• 09:19 their endeavors to facilitate success to the end that we might
• 09:22 be the head and not the tail; a victor, not a victim; a winner,
• 09:26 not a loser, and that's what we want.
• 09:28 And we want leaders to facilitate that.
• 09:30 Well, here, at the very end of the older Testament, the good
• 09:34 Lord is saying he's gonna be behind this good governor to
• 09:38 accomplish his purposes.
• 09:41 Kings and kingdoms, it's important to have the right kind
• 09:44 of people with the right kind of power and the right kind
• 09:47 of place.
• 09:49 That's not only true of governments generally.
• 09:52 In our own homes as well, we want godly people, we want godly
• 09:55 virtue, godly vision, because that will ensure good success in
• 09:58 our personal endeavors, not just our communal corporate, you
• 10:04 know, American or continental endeavors, whatever country you
• 10:08 live in.
• 10:10 More to come as we consider kings and kingdoms.
• 10:14 ♪♪♪
• 10:19 Jeffrey: I talked with Avi Lipkin, an author, a friend
• 10:22 of the ministry, a personal friend, in fact, to get his
• 10:25 perspective on what happened at the conclusion of the 70-year
• 10:29 exile in Babylon.
• 10:32 Jeffrey: Avi, Ezra, Nehemiah, the end of the Old
• 10:36 Testament world, what was happening back then?
• 10:40 Avi Lipkin: Well, as you know, after the destruction of the
• 10:42 first temple and most of the Israelites were exiled to Iraq,
• 10:47 most of the exiles really did not wanna come back to the land
• 10:51 of Israel.
• 10:52 Life in Iraq was very good, don't--
• 10:54 Jeffrey: Babylon.
• 10:56 Avi: Babylon, yeah.
• 10:57 Jeffrey: In antiquity; Iraq in modernity.
• 10:59 Avi: And Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob came from there and so it
• 11:03 was comfortable for the Jews to stay there.
• 11:05 Actually, the Talmud was concocted, you know, was written
• 11:08 in that area by the year 500 AD.
• 11:11 Jeffrey: That's right, people don't know that.
• 11:13 The Bavli, the Babylonian Talmud, was more expanded than
• 11:15 the Yerushalmi, the Jerusalem--
• 11:17 Avi: Yerushalmi, exactly, the Jerusalem Talmud is shorter,
• 11:20 it's more abridged, and actually they suffered at that time more
• 11:23 from the Byzantine persecution.
• 11:27 It wasn't possible as much to be free, that freedom in Babylonia
• 11:32 to do the Talmud, anyway--
• 11:34 Jeffrey: Yeah, but I led you another place.
• 11:35 What do you wanna say about Ezra and Nehemiah, that world?
• 11:37 Avi: Okay, now, Ezra and Nehemiah wanted to come back and
• 11:41 they wanted to have a more--more of a purist Jewish state.
• 11:46 And so what they said to many of the Israelites was to divorce
• 11:50 what they called their foreign wives, their pagan wives.
• 11:52 Don't forget, this is BC, this is before Christ.
• 11:55 So in the year 400 BC, 500 BC, it wasn't like they were
• 12:00 intermarrying with Christians.
• 12:01 They were intermarrying with pagans.
• 12:03 And one of the very first things I learned 50 years ago from my
• 12:05 wife Rachel who's from Egypt, is that the Jews and the Christians
• 12:08 are one people.
• 12:10 We're the people of the book, the people of the Bible.
• 12:12 And so, if the Christians believe in the same God, the
• 12:15 same Bible, and they believe in the Messiah who was a Jew,
• 12:17 they're not pagans.
• 12:18 So it's not the same as in Ezra's time.
• 12:20 And Muslims are great people but they have another god, Allah the
• 12:23 moon god, and they have another Bible and they have another book
• 12:26 and they have another tradition.
• 12:28 Jeffrey: Our viewers, by and large, are working with the
• 12:30 concept of being grafted into the Jewish people, to
• 12:32 your point.
• 12:34 Avi: Absolutely correct, and one of the things I say about that
• 12:36 is that if the Jews are the roots and the Christians are
• 12:38 the branches, and I say, "Amen," to that, but together we
• 12:40 make one tree, and any attack on the roots is an attack on the
• 12:44 branches, and vice versa.
• 12:46 And, again, it's one of the reasons why I felt God was
• 12:49 forcing me, telling me, "You've got to do this Judeo-Christian
• 12:52 Alliance Party."
• 12:53 And I'm hoping one day that we will see ourselves as the
• 12:56 biggest party in the Knesset when all of these millions and
• 12:59 millions of Jews and Christians come home.
• 13:01 Jeffrey: Thank you so much, Avi.
• 13:03 Avi: My pleasure, God bless you.
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• 13:07 Jeffrey: It's one of the trademarks of this program that
• 13:09 we come from biblical sites when teaching, but the real estate
• 13:14 that I wanna speak from in this segment is biblical
• 13:18 real estate itself.
• 13:21 In Psalm 139, David sings in verse 23, "Search me, O God, and
• 13:28 know my heart; examine me, and know my anxious thoughts."
• 13:34 And I wonder what kind of leader, what kind of political
• 13:38 figure would ask for such things.
• 13:42 In a world where so many are predisposed to keep the
• 13:45 skeletons in the closet out of public view, and even out of a
• 13:49 personal view.
• 13:51 This person goes on to say in verse 24: "And see if there be
• 13:55 any offensive way within me, and lead me in a way everlasting."
• 14:02 Now, there is a kind of beauty in this, to be sure.
• 14:05 And for that matter, the person that came up with the song is
• 14:08 imperfect, David himself.
• 14:11 I don't personally expect perfection in human affairs, but
• 14:17 I like to see things that come closer to it and, against that
• 14:21 backdrop, as I begin to walk away from a series looking at
• 14:27 kings and kingdoms, with kingdoms that fell apart and
• 14:31 kings that fell apart, recalling my own grading of these kings, I
• 14:36 wasn't particularly gracious but I think they didn't earn good
• 14:41 grades on the whole.
• 14:42 But even against that backdrop, I'm reminded of a prophet who
• 14:48 was murdered by one of Judah's kings who looked over the
• 14:52 horizon in chapter 9, verse 6 "when he sees a child who's
• 14:56 going to be born, a Son who's going to be given, and the
• 15:00 government will be upon his shoulder."
• 15:04 He envisions this king.
• 15:06 Now, Hebrews, rabbis are predisposed to see this as a
• 15:11 prophecy of the coming of King Hezekiah.
• 15:15 I'm less inclined because Hezekiah's name wasn't called
• 15:20 "Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and
• 15:24 Prince of Peace."
• 15:26 That title, to be sure, is reserved for one person.
• 15:31 You might think of the song, if come Christmastime you're game
• 15:36 to listen to Handel's "Messiah," which is something of a
• 15:39 tradition in my family.
• 15:42 Irrespective of what you think of the holiday and when you
• 15:45 think the Lord was born, those of us who think the Messiah was
• 15:49 born in the person of Yeshua, are harking back to a song that
• 15:55 was sung, "For unto us a child is born," referencing him.
• 16:00 We're told of "the increase of his government and of peace
• 16:04 there will be no end."
• 16:08 In speaking of kings and kingdoms, and all the
• 16:12 imperfections associated with them, I wanna draw attention to
• 16:19 a King.
• 16:21 Should we give him rulership in our world, there's a guarantee
• 16:27 of peace and success in life that comes in the wake of our
• 16:31 so doing.
• 16:33 Appropriately, in a democracy we're afforded the opportunity
• 16:37 to cast a vote.
• 16:39 But I wanna tell you that irrespective of who sits in the
• 16:44 Oval Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, and I have my
• 16:49 preference, I believe however, that irrespective of who sits
• 16:53 there, for us, success in life is more predicated upon who
• 16:59 reigns in here.
• 17:02 And to that end, I believe we'd do well to look at
• 17:04 the literature.
• 17:07 As I said at the outset, I'm used to coming to you from a
• 17:09 biblical terrain, actually hills, sticks and bricks, sites,
• 17:15 ancient fortifications, palaces, and sites in the Holy Land, but
• 17:20 I wanna come to you from a location in the holy book and
• 17:24 tell you that when I think of kings and kingdoms and who ought
• 17:29 to reign and who ought to have dominion, I'm minded to go with
• 17:34 this prophet who gives voice to the fact that should we give
• 17:38 access to this prince of peace, this King of kings, we're told
• 17:44 that "of peace, of shalom, as we see his government manifested in
• 17:50 our life, that we'll see a peace that passes all understanding.
• 17:57 And of that there will be no end."
• 18:00 Words come to an end, and television series come to
• 18:04 an end.
• 18:06 But there's a kind of peace that comes to us now and goes with us
• 18:10 beyond the grave.
• 18:12 As we look at kings and kingdoms I wanna encourage you to second
• 18:17 look--take a second look at the one who wore this crown and
• 18:21 invite him into your world and discover how that, by virtue of
• 18:26 his residing therein, it will make all the difference.
• 18:34 David: Our resource this week, the series "Kings and Kingdoms."
• 18:37 These eight programs examine the rulers of ancient Israel and
• 18:41 Judah because within their stories we find lessons of godly
• 18:44 leadership and principles we can observe today, even in our
• 18:48 political leaders.
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• 20:12 Right now, we have one more Hebrew lesson from
• 20:14 Sarah Liberman.
• 20:16 If you've enjoyed these Hebrew lessons, we'd love to hear
• 20:17 from you.
• 20:19 Let's go to her now.
• 20:20 ♪♪♪
• 20:25 Sarah Liberman: Shalom haverim.
• 20:26 Welcome back to our series, exploring words of worship in
• 20:30 the language of Hebrew.
• 20:32 You see, in English we have primarily two words: "praise"
• 20:35 and "worship."
• 20:36 But in Hebrew, these words mean so many different things and, as
• 20:41 a worship leader, I know that if you take some of these meanings
• 20:44 and bring them into your worship life, it will truly transform
• 20:48 your relationship with the Lord.
• 20:51 Now, today's word is a little bit of a tongue-twister.
• 20:54 It is this: l'hishtachavot.
• 20:57 It's a very long word and it comes from the Hebrew word,
• 21:00 "hishtachvaim*."
• 21:02 What it means is to bow down or to stretch out, face down on the
• 21:08 ground in worship.
• 21:10 It's used in context of coming in contact with royalty, when
• 21:15 you bow down in front of the king.
• 21:18 In our worship services normally, if somebody were to
• 21:21 lie down, face down, on the ground, we might think that's a
• 21:25 little weird.
• 21:26 But actually, this act of complete surrender, of laying
• 21:30 ourselves down all the way, going to the lowest place, is a
• 21:35 place where we can give highest praises to the one in the
• 21:40 highest place because he deserves the best of
• 21:44 our worship.
• 21:45 And when we humble ourselves and lower ourselves to the lowest
• 21:49 place, that's when we can give the most incredible worship unto
• 21:54 the Lord.
• 21:56 Look at what it says in Psalms: "All the nations you have made
• 21:59 will come and worship before you, O Lord; they will bring to
• 22:04 you glory and exalt your name because you have done great and
• 22:09 marvelous deeds; you alone are God."
• 22:13 This is the kind of attitude of giving God the fullness of the
• 22:19 glory of everything in your life.
• 22:22 I don't know if you've ever tried it and I know it might
• 22:24 sound a little scary, but maybe one time you can go before the
• 22:29 Lord alone and just stretch yourself out before him and just
• 22:34 give him the highest praise from the lowest place.
• 22:39 I tell you, it will truly transform your life.
• 22:45 ♪♪♪
• 23:01 ♪ I'll sing a song with the giants ♪
• 23:04 ♪ Against the mighty foe ♪
• 23:08 ♪ I know the Lord is with me wherever I may go ♪
• 23:17 ♪ And though the battle's raging ♪
• 23:21 ♪ It looks like they will win ♪
• 23:25 ♪ I know the Lord is with me ♪
• 23:28 ♪ Even to the end ♪
• 23:34 ♪♪♪
• 23:36 ♪ Search me, and know me, Lord, wherever I go ♪
• 23:43 ♪ Grant me a clean heart ♪
• 23:47 ♪ Then will I know ♪
• 23:51 ♪ How precious are your thoughts ♪
• 23:55 ♪ I can't count them all ♪
• 23:59 ♪ For you are Almighty God, my All in All ♪
• 24:08 ♪♪♪
• 24:28 David: Our desire in this ministry is that you hear the
• 24:32 good news of our ultimate leader, Yeshua.
• 24:35 We can't do this without your help and we just thank you so
• 24:38 much for that.
• 24:40 Today, it's all about Yeshua and the grade that we give
• 24:43 him, correct?
• 24:45 Jeffrey: That's true and, you know, speaking of grading,
• 24:49 inasmuch as I've graded these various kings, the way people
• 24:52 grade us is with their dollars that they help.
• 24:55 It's kind of like politicians, you know, if they get to power
• 24:58 it's because people vote 'em in and, similarly, if Jesus gets
• 25:02 into a heart, it's because he's invited in and if we get to tell
• 25:06 this story this way, it's because people facilitate it
• 25:09 when they vote with their dollars.
• 25:11 Here, as we look to--
• 25:13 Kirsten: A lot of kings.
• 25:15 David: A lot of "F's."
• 25:16 Jeffrey: A lot of "F's."
• 25:18 You know, it really was something of a downward spiral
• 25:20 in so many ways that came to ruin, decay, and despair.
• 25:23 Until we get to A-plus here, of course.
• 25:25 David: There it is.
• 25:27 Kirsten: Yes, finally.
• 25:28 Jeffrey: And Yeshua himself, A-plus.
• 25:30 Kirsten: Plus, another plus.
• 25:32 Jeffrey: Yes, and, you know, he lived 2000 years ago but he
• 25:33 lives today 'cause he rose from the dead.
• 25:35 These didn't.
• 25:37 And he brings a kind of peace now and again into the future.
• 25:40 And so, I'm so pleased to present him as the ultimate
• 25:43 solution to human affairs.
• 25:45 David: And that's the word that sticks out in my mind.
• 25:47 As you taught us, he's the prince of peace.
• 25:49 Is there peace in our world today?
• 25:51 Jeffrey: Well, again, we have to answer that for ourselves.
• 25:53 There's inner peace.
• 25:55 Minimally, we can achieve that by virtue of forgiveness and,
• 25:59 not only receiving it ourselves, but being inclined to grant it
• 26:02 to others as well.
• 26:05 And thus bringing about a cessation of hostilities.
• 26:08 We can get all tangled up with human beings.
• 26:11 These thorns got all tangled up and put on a human being who is
• 26:14 referred to as a king, mockingly so.
• 26:17 We can invite him into our lives and get all untangled.
• 26:21 Kirsten: He looks so different from the others.
• 26:23 He wasn't what they expected.
• 26:25 They thought this military leader like the military leader
• 26:28 of all military leaders will finally come and he came and he
• 26:31 was different.
• 26:34 But he really brought them everything they needed.
• 26:36 Jeffrey: Yes.
• 26:38 Kirsten: That was it.
• 26:40 Jeffrey: Yes, and I realize that in our world today and back then
• 26:42 in antiquity as well, leaders are commander in chief of
• 26:43 the armies.
• 26:45 We need that going forward but I'm looking for human beings as
• 26:47 individuals that mirror this King and I certainly wanna see
• 26:50 it in political figures.
• 26:52 Kirsten: Well, I'm looking forward to the time that he's
• 26:54 ruling for 1000 years in Jerusalem.
• 26:57 He will show everyone what a real King and real leader
• 26:58 looks like.
• 27:00 Jeffrey: Yes.
• 27:02 David: I was gonna say a lot of prayer these days for our
• 27:03 leadership, yes?
• 27:04 Jeffrey: Amen, certainly, it's all needed.
• 27:06 Well, it's been swell.
• 27:08 Thanks for going with us on the journey and, as you go now,
• 27:11 shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:13 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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