Caption transcript for Ezekiel and the MidEast ‘Piece’ Process (2023): “Neighbors Ready for Judgment” (5/8)

• 00:01 David Hart: Shalom and hello again. In the future, nations rise up
• 00:07 against Israel, so the Lord, through the prophet Ezekiel, calls them out by name.
• 00:10 Stay tuned for "Our Jewish Roots" with Bible teaching
• 00:13 by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
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• 00:23 [deep male voice speaking foreign language]
• 00:26 male narrator: The Lord said unto Ezekiel,
• 00:28 "Son of man, can these bones live?"
• 00:33 [deep voice speaking foreign language]
• 00:37 narrator: "Prophesy upon these bones and say unto them,
• 00:41 'O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.'"
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• 01:13 narrator: "Ezekiel and the Mideast Piece Process."
• 01:20 David: We are so glad you've joined us today.
• 01:21 I am David Hart.
• 01:23 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:24 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:26 Kirsten: We are in our series all about Ezekiel, and we've
• 01:28 titled this series, "The Piece Process," little pieces of a
• 01:31 puzzle coming together to make a big picture, and, today, we're
• 01:35 talking about Israel's neighbors, and I have to say,
• 01:38 a good neighbor is not easy to find, is it?
• 01:42 David: Aha, that's true.
• 01:44 Kirsten: We just put floors in into our condo, and our next
• 01:46 door neighbor was not happy with us, so came over and told us so.
• 01:50 So, sometimes, you're not always surrounded
• 01:52 by the easiest neighbors.
• 01:54 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No, and the political situation comes and
• 01:56 goes, sometimes harder than others, but to be sure, the
• 02:01 literature is clear that, when Israel is reestablished
• 02:04 miraculously as a nation-state, it riles up those round
• 02:07 about, and that happened.
• 02:09 That was predicted yesterday, and we do see it today.
• 02:12 David: So this started--you started this
• 02:14 program ten years ago.
• 02:15 Have things kind of changed, or would you think
• 02:17 it's still the same?
• 02:18 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, the political situation changes
• 02:20 a little bit here and a little there, but the dynamic
• 02:22 is always the same.
• 02:24 That's why you open up the Bible--it's timeless that what
• 02:28 we see played out and predicted back then, we see it now.
• 02:32 You know, the leader of the party isn't Yasser Arafat,
• 02:35 it's this person.
• 02:36 Parties come and go by name, and principals come and go, but the
• 02:39 overarching issue, Israel's presence invokes ire,
• 02:45 but nevertheless, it's part of God's plan.
• 02:48 It's a major piece to the prophetic puzzle.
• 02:52 David: Yup.
• 02:54 Kirsten: It is, and can I just jump in and say, I think you
• 02:56 look better today than you did even back then; look at that.
• 02:58 You looked good then, but you look really good now.
• 03:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You're kind to say it, thanks.
• 03:03 I am 67 now, so--
• 03:05 Kirsten: Looking good. David: Yup.
• 03:07 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Thank you.
• 03:08 David: Right now, we take you back to Ezekiel's story
• 03:10 with Dr. Seif's teaching; let's go there now.
• 03:13 narrator: In 586 B.C., the Lord spoke unto Ezekiel,
• 03:18 "Set thy face against Pharaoh and prophesy against all Egypt.
• 03:23 Say, 'Thus saith the Lord God, "Behold, I am against thee.
• 03:29 All the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord,
• 03:33 because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
• 03:37 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste in
• 03:40 the midst of the countries that are desolate.
• 03:43 Neither shall it be inhabited 40 years."'"
• 03:50 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: We didn't create this picture
• 03:52 you're seeing, we just walked into it, and what a sight it is.
• 03:56 The prophet Ezekiel says, like this town here,
• 03:59 that nation-states that border Israel are going to be
• 04:03 devastated, and why is that?
• 04:05 Because there is a judgment brought to bear for their
• 04:08 sins against God, for their sins against Israel, and the
• 04:11 Lord is not a happy camper.
• 04:13 Eight chapters are invested in telling that story, and Ezekiel
• 04:18 is not the only one who does it.
• 04:20 Isaiah has eight chapters. Jeremiah has six.
• 04:24 There's 22 chapters that describe what will come of
• 04:29 the nations round about Israel in the day when God
• 04:32 brings his judgment to bear.
• 04:34 If you think of the New Testament, there's four gospels.
• 04:37 There's more text talking about the judgment of the nations
• 04:41 round about Israel than two of the gospels, and it's equivalent
• 04:43 to the book of Revelation.
• 04:45 There's a lot, and I wanna examine it with you
• 04:48 as we consider the story.
• 04:50 If you'll open your Bibles, please, to Ezekiel chapter 25,
• 04:54 picking up in verse 1--
• 04:57 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 05:00 "And the word of the Lord came to me, saying--"
• 05:04 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 05:05 "Son of man--"
• 05:06 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 05:10 "Set your face toward the children of Ammon."
• 05:15 Now, he's gonna begin with the Ammonites just to the east.
• 05:18 He's going to then go from there to the Moabites, going east
• 05:25 of the Jordan, beginning with the Ammonites, the Moabites,
• 05:29 to the Edomites.
• 05:31 Then he's going to go around to the west to Philistia,
• 05:36 where the modern Gaza area is, interestingly.
• 05:40 He's going to loop around Israel and go north further
• 05:42 into what would be modern Lebanon in prophesying
• 05:47 against Tyre and Sidon.
• 05:49 In conjunction with that, then, there'll be a lot of
• 05:52 text invested against Egypt.
• 05:55 What a story.
• 05:57 Here, we're just beginning when he says, "Son of man,
• 06:00 set your face toward the children of Ammon."
• 06:03 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 06:06 "And prophesy against them."
• 06:09 And what's the word in verse 3?
• 06:12 Alas, "Because you said, 'Aha,' against my sanctuary, because
• 06:17 you were hellbent on the people and the religion," so it is,
• 06:21 God's not a happy camper.
• 06:23 He's going to bring his force to bear.
• 06:25 There will be a reckoning.
• 06:27 In verse 7, he says, "Behold, I stretch out my hand upon thee,
• 06:31 and will deliver thee for a spoil to the nations and cut
• 06:35 thee off from the peoples."
• 06:39 They molested God's people, and the net result is they'll
• 06:43 be judged accordingly, and not just them.
• 06:46 We move on to verses 8, and on.
• 06:49 We leave Ammon, we go to Moab, particularly, and he says,
• 06:54 "I will open the flank of Moab."
• 06:57 They'll be opened up and destroyed, in verse 9.
• 07:00 In verse 11, he says, "I will execute my
• 07:03 judgments against Moab."
• 07:05 In verse 12, then "Edom has dealt against the house of
• 07:09 Judah, and so it is," he says in 13, "I'll stretch out
• 07:12 my hand against Edom.
• 07:15 I will lay vengeance upon Edom by the hand
• 07:17 of my people Israel."
• 07:19 There is a day of reckoning.
• 07:21 What happens is, when Israel was reconstituted as a nation-state,
• 07:25 the nations round about tried to prevent it, and then, unable to
• 07:28 prevent it, then they mobilized energies to try and destroy it.
• 07:33 There was succession of wars but to no avail.
• 07:35 God gave Israel victory.
• 07:37 Absent being able to then take to the field with conventional
• 07:41 armies, we have all of this, you know, the war in the
• 07:44 press and terrorism and people investing their
• 07:47 angst against unarmed civilians.
• 07:49 God is not a happy camper, and what happens is
• 07:52 all this comes to an end.
• 07:54 Speaking of coming to an end, before I bring this segment to
• 07:57 an end, you'll find in verse 15, interestingly, where he says,
• 08:01 "Because the Philistines have been given to revenge with
• 08:05 disdain of soul to destroy because of an old hatred," he
• 08:09 says, and lo and behold, that they will meet judgment as
• 08:12 a result of their so doing.
• 08:14 Now, those that occupy Philistia today, what would be Gaza,
• 08:18 these aren't the actual Philistines of a bygone era.
• 08:21 It's interesting, however, how the prophet sees trouble all
• 08:24 around Israel, and this, strange as it might sound, is all part
• 08:28 of "Ezekiel's Middle East Piece Process," as he looks at
• 08:33 it one piece of judgment at a time.
• 08:37 [Ezekiel speaking in Hebrew]
• 08:39 narrator: "And the Lord spoke unto Ezekiel regarding the
• 08:42 forthcoming judgment upon Jerusalem, 'Utter a parable
• 08:47 unto the rebellious house, "Gather the good pieces of meat,
• 08:52 and fill the pot with the choice bones and make it boil well."'"
• 09:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Rarely do my eyes alight upon
• 09:03 such nothingness, such barrenness.
• 09:07 You wouldn't believe me, but the Bible says that, one day,
• 09:11 this part of the world will become like Eden.
• 09:15 It'll be lush, verdant, a place of life.
• 09:19 Well, that belongs to days forward, not the present.
• 09:25 And so much for the good news in this story.
• 09:28 There's different word pictures that Ezekiel paints.
• 09:31 In the 24th chapter, he sees a cauldron, and he sees pieces
• 09:35 being put into the cauldron, and what does he mean by that?
• 09:39 He sees God's wrath cooking, and he sees people
• 09:43 as being part of the stew.
• 09:46 A person here, a person there are thrown into that as
• 09:49 his cup overflows, his cup of wrath, evidenced by that.
• 09:56 In this segment, we're looking at God's judgment that's
• 10:00 brought to bear on the nations round about Israel.
• 10:04 His judgment was brought to bear because they didn't care.
• 10:08 They didn't care to share.
• 10:09 They were greedy, they were avaricious, and what happens
• 10:12 is God had a day in court.
• 10:15 We've looked briefly at Ammon.
• 10:18 We've considered as well Moab, Edom, and briefly made mention
• 10:22 of Philistia, where the Gaza Strip is today.
• 10:26 Well, our prophet continues to go around Israel,
• 10:30 and he considers Tyre.
• 10:33 In chapter 26, 27, and 28, there is a fascinating story.
• 10:40 A considerable amount of text is dedicated to telling the
• 10:45 story of judgment that would befall that part of the
• 10:48 world where we have Lebanon today.
• 10:52 It's a fascinating story, not just because judgment is brought
• 10:56 to bear but that, in the process of discussing the judgment, the
• 11:02 Lord alights upon a figure of the devil, for my money,
• 11:08 underscoring the demonic that seems to inform and inflame
• 11:15 the world around this part of the world.
• 11:18 Well, so much for talking about the text.
• 11:20 Here, I want you to hear it if you'd open up to chapter 28,
• 11:23 verse 1, in Ezekiel, as we consider "Ezekiel
• 11:26 and the Mideast Piece Process."
• 11:30 Judgment brought to bear here is one of the pieces to the puzzle.
• 11:34 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 11:38 "And the word of the Lord came, saying, 'Son of man,'"
• 11:44 speaking to the prince of Tyre, he says,
• 11:48 "Because your heart is lifted up, and you say,
• 11:52 'I am God, and I sit in the temple of God--"
• 11:58 you might recall Rav Shaul, the apostle Paul, saying as much of
• 12:03 the anti-Messiah, that he proclaims that he's God and he
• 12:07 takes his seat in the temple of God.
• 12:10 Well, according to Ezekiel, never mind this person taking
• 12:13 his seat in a remanufactured house of God.
• 12:18 This personality goes back to Eden, where it all went awry,
• 12:23 and this is where we get the story of the devil, once a
• 12:27 covering angel who's cast out of paradise.
• 12:31 That's not just, you know, fanciful preaching.
• 12:34 It's in the text.
• 12:36 Well, he goes on, in verse 12, to describe this personality,
• 12:41 this king of Tyre, who thinks he's perfect.
• 12:43 In verse 13, Ezekiel says that he was in Eden, "the very garden
• 12:49 of God," this made man, this personality that had everything,
• 12:56 this person who was beautiful, but then he was corrupted
• 13:00 because of his beauty, because of his splendor, and we're told
• 13:05 in verse 16 that he sinned, and in verse 17, the word is "I will
• 13:10 destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of
• 13:15 fire, there amidst these glistening jewels."
• 13:19 This personality comes to an inglorious end.
• 13:22 Now, this is part of God's weighing in against the nations
• 13:28 round about Israel, but it's not just that, for here in the
• 13:33 text, evil is described, personified as demonic.
• 13:41 The evil that goes back to the very beginning of time, it
• 13:44 seems, is going to re-manifest at the edge of time, and this is
• 13:49 part of the Bible story, and it's part of "Ezekiel and the
• 13:54 Mideast Piece Process."
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• 15:55 Right now, we go back to Israel for more of Ezekiel's story.
• 16:01 narrator: The Lord spoke unto Ezekiel and told him to mark
• 16:05 two roads for the approaching king of Babylon.
• 16:08 One of the road signs would point to Ammon;
• 16:11 the other, to Jerusalem.
• 16:13 Nebuchadnezzar would, in fact, choose to march against
• 16:16 Jerusalem, and God would condone it as judgment against
• 16:20 Jerusalem's transgressions.
• 16:22 In time, however, God's wrath would also be
• 16:25 turned towards Ammon.
• 16:32 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: In another life, as a police officer,
• 16:34 I had ample opportunity to stand in an intersection and decide
• 16:37 who goes and decide who comes, and I'd tell people,
• 16:41 "Hurry up and make that turn."
• 16:43 Well, in chapter 21 of Ezekiel, the prophet sees himself--or he
• 16:47 sees an intersection where someone has to decide where
• 16:50 they're going to go, but in that case, wherever they go, what's
• 16:54 on the menu is to go and to rape, to kill, and to plunder,
• 16:59 and why is that?
• 17:00 Because the engines of war are turned on.
• 17:03 God's judgment is brought to bear against Israel
• 17:06 because of Israel's sins.
• 17:08 God's judgment is brought to bear against the
• 17:10 nations round about Israel.
• 17:13 God is showing himself tough.
• 17:15 What's interesting about Ezekiel isn't just that God shows
• 17:18 himself tough, but the restoration motif; but I'm
• 17:21 getting ahead of myself a little here.
• 17:24 I want you to look in chapter 29 of Ezekiel with me.
• 17:27 We're looking in verse 2, but going up to it.
• 17:31 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 17:34 "The word of the Lord came unto me, saying--"
• 17:36 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 17:38 "Son of man--"
• 17:39 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 17:44 "Set your face against Pharaoh, king of Egypt--"
• 17:50 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 17:51 "And prophesy against him--"
• 17:54 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 17:56 "And against all Egypt and say, 'Thus saith the Lord--'"
• 18:02 and what does he say?
• 18:04 He says what we don't wanna hear.
• 18:06 He says, quote, in verse 3, "Behold, I am against thee--"
• 18:11 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 18:14 "I am against thee, Pharaoh, king of Egypt," and he says
• 18:17 in verse 4, "I'm going to put a hook in your mouth
• 18:21 and bring you up."
• 18:23 What does he mean by that?
• 18:25 He compares him in verse 3 to a "great dragon."
• 18:30 Here, in the Jewish translation, better, "a crocodile."
• 18:33 There's a croc in the Nile.
• 18:35 And what happens, Lord says, "I'm gonna come and grab you,
• 18:37 put a hook in you and bring you up, take you to the banks and
• 18:41 throw you upon the dry ground."
• 18:44 This is imagery here of Egypt taking a hit.
• 18:49 What's interesting, in Ezekiel, all the nations round
• 18:53 about Israel take a hit.
• 18:56 They invoke God's ire, and they're judged
• 18:58 because of it; why?
• 19:00 Because they're hell-bent on molesting Israel,
• 19:04 and there is a day of reckoning.
• 19:05 There is a day in court.
• 19:08 God says he's gonna show himself strong on behalf
• 19:11 of his people at days' end.
• 19:13 To quote then, in verse 6, why does he do it?
• 19:16 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 19:21 "That all the inhabitants of Egypt might know
• 19:25 that I am the Lord."
• 19:28 I find it fascinating, personally, some 90 times in
• 19:33 Ezekiel, God, who's showing himself tough, does so in order
• 19:39 that the world might know him.
• 19:42 Well, God shows himself tough.
• 19:45 The miracle isn't as much in the toughness as much as it
• 19:49 is in the way that God shows himself gracious in the
• 19:54 wake of the great conflagration.
• 19:58 When one looks at "Ezekiel and the Mideast Piece Process,"
• 20:02 we see that, for Ezekiel, the pieces of the puzzle,
• 20:05 when they line up, he sees war.
• 20:08 It had applications in antiquity.
• 20:10 It has applications in modernity as well.
• 20:14 It seems that tensions in this part of the world, revolving
• 20:17 around Israel, play themselves out, "Dor L'Dor," "from
• 20:21 generation to generation," and not just in the
• 20:25 Ezekiel text in a bygone era.
• 20:28 If one looks at the Johannine revelation, written by John,
• 20:33 John the Revelator, in visions that at days' end, there's a
• 20:36 climactic war, and it culminates with a comparable image.
• 20:40 He sees here the devil is a serpent, a scaled creature, and
• 20:45 the Lord takes it by the throat and drags it and throws it
• 20:48 in the pit--finished.
• 20:51 And then there's a cessation of hostilities.
• 20:53 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 20:57 There's the season, then, when nation will not lift up sword
• 21:01 against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
• 21:06 Well, when we look at "Ezekiel and the Middle East Piece
• 21:09 Process," the steps toward the lasting peace
• 21:14 entail disequilibrium as the engines of war turned up.
• 21:19 So much for the bad news.
• 21:21 As we follow this series, we'll consider the good news as God
• 21:26 rejuvenates a world that's devastated by social unrest,
• 21:31 political intrigue, and war.
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• 22:22 David: I just wanna give a shout-out today to somebody
• 22:24 at this table right now.
• 22:26 Dr. Seif, thank you for your insight.
• 22:29 So, we grew up in the church, Sunday school.
• 22:31 We thought we knew all about Ezekiel from singin' that song,
• 22:34 but so much more that we've learned right here with you.
• 22:38 Thank you.
• 22:40 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, you're kind, and I learn, too, to
• 22:42 prepare for it, and I learn when I go through it,
• 22:45 so we're all just students at the end of the day.
• 22:48 Kirsten: Can I say something? Am I allowed to?
• 22:50 Look at my fingers. They are tapping.
• 22:52 We talked today about God's judgment on the neighboring
• 22:57 countries, but didn't God use those countries to teach
• 23:03 Israel a lesson, should I say?
• 23:06 God's wrath was used through those countries, and now they
• 23:09 get in trouble for doing what they're supposed to do?
• 23:13 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I mean, it's a great question.
• 23:14 God can use everything and anything.
• 23:17 All things work for the good, and, you know, nothing
• 23:21 escapes God's attention.
• 23:22 So, yes, they do wrong, and they're punished, but even with
• 23:26 bad motives, God can use people to accomplish his good purposes.
• 23:31 That's why we survive at the end of the day.
• 23:33 That's how we get through.
• 23:35 There are individuals that are not kindly disposed toward us.
• 23:39 They'll face their reckoning for what they've done, but God has a
• 23:43 way of still guiding us into the future with all the ups and
• 23:46 downs that go along with it.
• 23:47 David: Sounds like the word might be "restoration,"
• 23:49 hope for all of us?
• 23:51 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I think that's an extremely important
• 23:53 theme in Ezekiel, and that certainly manifests
• 23:55 as we go through the book.
• 23:57 I mean, it's one thing to restore a life, and that can be
• 23:59 very challenging, and God is in the business of doing it.
• 24:02 To restore a nation, a collective of lives and clans,
• 24:06 is much more challenging, but the good Lord does it.
• 24:09 Kirsten: And in the countries--I'm gonna jump back.
• 24:12 So is it true that the countries fulfilled what God needed them
• 24:16 to do, but they took more liberties with the Hebrew people
• 24:21 than they should have?
• 24:22 Were they rougher on them?
• 24:24 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, I wouldn't say more or less.
• 24:25 I wasn't there, but you do find the question is raised earlier
• 24:27 in the Bible with Pharaoh.
• 24:30 On the one hand, it says, the literature, that the Lord
• 24:32 hardened Pharaoh's heart toward the Hebrews, and then he was
• 24:37 punished later for the hardness of heart.
• 24:39 It's the same kind of thing.
• 24:40 Why does God do it on the one hand, then punish
• 24:42 if he was involved in it?
• 24:43 But the argument is, while it is true he hardened his heart,
• 24:46 it was hardened in the shape that was already there,
• 24:49 and Pharaoh was responsible for it.
• 24:51 That is to say, whatever that man was, he was, and then he was
• 24:57 punished as a result of it, but God still used it for his
• 25:01 own good purposes, oddly enough.
• 25:02 Kirsten: It's crazy, isn't it?
• 25:04 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It really is.
• 25:05 Kirsten: His ways really are higher than our ways.
• 25:06 We don't understand.
• 25:08 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And we all run into difficult people
• 25:09 in life, and it's hurtful.
• 25:11 And I should say as well that we all have friends as well.
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• 26:04 Kirsten: I have to tie up.
• 26:06 We're talkin' about--it's not an easy topic about God's judgment,
• 26:09 but I keep going back to what he says many times, I believe, in
• 26:13 Ezekiel, that "I am for you, not against you," to always remember
• 26:19 he has our best plans laid out for us.
• 26:22 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and he wants to show himself strong,
• 26:24 you know, around 90 or so times through what God does in the
• 26:29 world, "that the world might know me."
• 26:32 There's a sense in which he shows his power through
• 26:34 his getting his purposes done in the world,
• 26:38 difficulties notwithstanding.
• 26:40 David: Next week's program, I would call it wild and crazy,
• 26:44 all about the dry bones.
• 26:45 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, next week's program's probably
• 26:47 the best in the series.
• 26:49 You don't wanna miss it.
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