Caption transcript for Ezekiel and the MidEast ‘Piece’ Process: “Ezekiel: The Man, His Time, His Message — Then and Now” (1/8)

• 00:03 WITH DR. JEFFERY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT
• 00:09 THE LORD SAID UNTO EZEKIEL,
• 00:10 "SON OF MAN, CAN THESE BONES LIVE?"
• 00:20 "PROPHECY UPON THESE BONES AND SAY UNTO THEM,"
• 00:23 "OH YE DRY BONES, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD."
• 01:02 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:04 JEFFERY SEIF HERE WITH SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:06 SHALOM
• 01:07 WELCOME TO THE NEW SERIES ON EZEKIEL.
• 01:11 JEFF, THIS IS TERRIFIC!
• 01:13 YES, EZEKIEL AND THE MID-EAST 'PIECE' PROCESS.
• 01:18 PUZZLED ARE WE ABOUT THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN?
• 01:21 WE'RE GONNA PUT IT TOGETHER FOR YOU, PIECE BY PIECE BY EXPLORING EZEKIEL.
• 01:27 I LOVE EZEKIEL.
• 01:28 EZEKIEL TO ME
• 01:30 IS THE PROMISE, THE HOPE
• 01:32 THAT EVERYONE WILL KNOW, "I AM THE LORD".
• 01:35 "THIS IS THE REASON I'M DOING IT."
• 01:37 "I'M GONNA CHASTISE YOU, I'M GONNA GIVE YOU CHARITY.
• 01:39 "YOU ARE MY PEOPLE"
• 01:42 "AND EVERYONE WILL COME TO KNOW YOU."
• 01:44 HOW MANY TIMES DOES HE SAY,
• 01:47 "THAT THE WORLD MIGHT KNOW THE LORD," IN EZEKIEL?
• 01:49 65 TIMES.
• 01:50 YOU'D THINK SOMEBODY WOULD GET IT WOULDN'T YOU?
• 01:53 YES. I LOVE IT.
• 01:54 THAT WOMEN AND MEN MIGHT COME TO KNOW GOD.
• 01:59 THAT'S OUR PURPOSE TO BE A WITNESS.
• 02:01 FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT
• 02:03 AND JOURNEY WITH US.
• 02:06 ENTER INTO A TIME MACHINE
• 02:08 AND GO BACK TO A FASCINATING WORLD OF VISIONS
• 02:13 AND A WORLD WITH DIVISIONS
• 02:15 AND SEE HOW IT'S ALL PUT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.
• 02:18 EZEKIEL AND THE MIDDLE-EAST 'PIECE' PROCESS.
• 02:22 HERE WE GO.
• 02:25 IN 593 BC, EZEKIEL WAS AMONG THE EXILES BY THE RIVER KIPAR IN BABYLONIA.
• 02:32 AND THE HEAVENS WERE OPENED AND HE SAW VISIONS OF GOD.
• 02:39 A WHIRLWIND CAME OUT OF THE NORTH AND A BRIGHTNESS WAS ABOUT IT.
• 02:48 HIS NAME MEANS, "GOD STRENGTHENS"
• 02:51 AND EZEKIEL WAS GOING TO USE ALL THE STRENGTH HE COULD MUSTER.
• 02:57 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 02:59 BECAUSE THIS MAN LIVED AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF TIME.
• 03:05 AND WHAT TIME WAS IT PRAY TELL?
• 03:07 IT WAS A TIME WHEN THE CHICKENS WERE COMING HOME TO ROOST.
• 03:13 WHY DO I SAY THAT?
• 03:15 WHEN MANASSA CAME TO POWER, HEZEKIAH'S SON,
• 03:20 HE BROUGHT BAD THINGS WITH HIM..
• 03:24 IDOLATRY.
• 03:25 AND WITH BAD RELIGION CAME BAD PRACTICE.
• 03:29 PEOPLE WERE DEBAUCHED FROM THEIR PERSONAL LIVES.
• 03:32 THEY WERE UNETHICAL.
• 03:33 THEY WERE UNJUST.
• 03:35 JOSIAH, HIS GRANDSON CAME TO POWER AND ENDEAVORED TO MAKE SOME REFORMS
• 03:42 AND HE WAS GOOD ABOUT IT, BUT SADLY HE DIED YOUNG ON THE PLAINS OF MEGIDDO...ARMAGEDDON.
• 03:51 HIS SUCCESSORS WERE LIKE THE GRANDFATHER, THEY WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE.
• 03:56 AND THE HEBREW BIBLE TELLS US THAT THE WOUND WAS INCURABLE.
• 04:01 AND AGAINST THAT BACKDROP EZEKIEL MAKES HIS ENTRANCE ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA.
• 04:08 AND HE MAKES HIS ENTRANCE AT A TIME WHEN IN THE WAKE OF THE BATTLE OF CARCAMESH
• 04:15 BABYLONIA CAME TO POWER AND JUDEA WAS ANNEXED AS A BABYLONIAN HOLDING.
• 04:22 AND IT WAS ONLY A QUESTION OF TIME.
• 04:25 EZEKIEL WITH 10,000 OTHERS WERE SPIRITED AWAY TO BABYLONIA.
• 04:30 SOME REMAINED IN JUDEA, BUT THEIR FATE IN EFFECT, WAS SEALED.
• 04:36 EZEKIEL, THE NAME MEANS, "GOD STRENGTHEN" AND AS I SAID,
• 04:42 HE WAS GOING TO NEED ALL THE STRENGTH HE COULD MUSTER.
• 04:47 AND TO HELP HIM ALONG THIS MAN HAD A VISION OF GOD.
• 04:54 COMPARABLE TO ISAIAH WHO IN THE 6TH CHAPTER HAS A VISION OF GOD IN HIS THRONE ROOM.
• 05:00 AND YOU HEAR IN THE TEXT,
• 05:02 "KODOISH, KODOISH, KODOISH, ADONAI TSEBAYOTH",
• 05:05 "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS THE LORD ALMIGHTY, THE LORD OF HOSTS"
• 05:11 AND HERE EZEKIEL HAS A POWERFUL VISION OF HIS OWN.
• 05:17 AND AGAIN HE MINISTERED AT A TIME WHEN VISION AND VISION OF HOPE WAS NEEDED.
• 05:25 FOR HOPE WAS IN VERY HIGH DEMAND AND VERY SHORT SUPPLY.
• 05:30 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 05:31 BECAUSE JUDEA HAD SUNK.
• 05:34 THE TEMPLE WAS TO BE OVERUN.
• 05:36 THE COMMONWEALTH WOULD COLLAPSE.
• 05:39 AND EZEKIEL MINISTERED AMONGST REFUGEES, EXILES IN A BIG REFUGEE CAMP...
• 05:46 DISPLACED PERSONS, MISERABLE PERSONS, AND TO THOSE PERSONS EZEKIEL HAD A MESSAGE OF HOPE.
• 05:55 I'D LIKE YOU TO OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES, PLEASE AND MINE, IN THE 1ST CHAPTER OF THE 1ST VERSE:
• 06:00 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 06:03 AND IT CAME TO PASS
• 06:04 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 06:11 AND IT CAME TO PASS,
• 06:13 IN THE 30TH YEAR,
• 06:15 IN THE 4TH MONTH,
• 06:17 IN THE 5TH DAY OF THE MONTH,
• 06:19 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 06:27 AND AS I WAS AMONG THE CAPTIVES
• 06:30 BY THE RIVER KEBAR
• 06:31 THAT THE HEAVENS WERE OPENED TO ME.
• 06:35 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 06:39 AND I SAW VISIONS OF GOD.
• 06:43 AND WHAT A VISION IT WAS.
• 06:46 WE READ IN VERSE 4, HE SAYS:
• 06:47 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 06:50 AND I LOOKED
• 07:04 HE HAD A FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE.
• 07:07 EZEKIEL MINISTERED AT A TIME WHEN JUDEA WAS IN A RUINOUS STATE.
• 07:14 AND AS I STAND HERE IN AMONGST FORMER RUINS OF A BY GONE ERA,
• 07:19 JUST BENEATH THE JEWISH QUARTER IN MODERN ISRAEL.
• 07:22 YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE SIGHT OF A FORMER DEVASTATION AS THE COMMONWEALTH COLLAPSED.
• 07:30 WELL, IN THIS SERIES ON EZEKIEL WE'RE GONNA CONSIDER THE DEMISE
• 07:34 AND WE'RE GONNA CONSIDER THE RISE AS WE CONSIDER WHAT EZEKIEL HAS TO SAY,
• 07:40 AS WE LOOK AT EZEKIEL AND THE MID-EAST 'PIECE' PROCESS
• 07:44 AND CONSIDER THE PROPHETIC WORD THAT HE BROUGHT FROM HIS TROUBLED CIRCUMSTANCE.
• 07:51 AND THE LORD SPOKE UNTO EZEKIEL,
• 07:54 "SON OF MAN, I SHALL TAKE YOUR WIFE FROM YOU.'
• 07:57 "WEEP NOT, MOURN NOT."
• 08:00 "AND SO IT WAS THAT THE LORD REVEALED TO ISRAEL"
• 08:04 "THAT JERUSALEM'S TEMPLE WOULD SOON PASS AWAY."
• 08:08 "THE DEATH OF A BELOVED WIFE,"
• 08:10 "A HOLY TEMPLE VANQUISHED,"
• 08:13 "A PICTURE OF GRIEF BEYOND EXPRESSION."
• 08:20 WE ARE STANDING ON HOLY GROUND.
• 08:24 NOW THAT'S AN OLD SONG OF THE CHURCH.
• 08:27 AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT RIGHT NOW WE ARE STANDING ON HOLY GROUND.
• 08:33 IT DOESN'T GET A WHOLE LOT HOLIER THAN THIS, HERE IN JERUSALEM.
• 08:39 HERE AT THE SOUTHERN STEPS OF THE TEMPLE PROPER, STEPS THAT JESUS CHRIST WALKED UP AND DOWN.
• 08:46 IT'S A THRILL TO COME TO YOU FROM THIS PLACE.
• 08:50 IN FACT THIS PLACE IS A THRILL FOR SO MANY.
• 08:54 YOU CAN SEE THE GOLDEN BRICKS ALIGHTING BEHIND ME,
• 08:58 THERE'S A FAMOUS SONG THE JEWS SING, "YERUSHALAYIM SHEL ZAHAV", "JERUSALEM A CITY OF GOLD."
• 09:05 I LOVE THIS CITY, YOU LOVE THIS CITY, AND EZEKIEL LOVED THIS CITY.
• 09:12 A PRIEST...CAN'T TELL YOU HOW HEART BROKEN HE WAS, HOWEVER,
• 09:17 TO HAVE TO INFORM THAT THIS CITY WILL BE LAID WASTE.
• 09:24 I'M SITTING ON TOP OF PILLARS HERE IN THE TEMPLE COMPLEX
• 09:28 THAT WERE FELLED IN A FORMER GENERATION.
• 09:31 "THE LORD GIVES AND THE LORD TAKES AWAY".
• 09:34 YOU'VE HEARD THAT EXPRESSION.
• 09:36 THIS IS THE LORD'S HOUSE
• 09:38 AND HE LET HIS HOUSE BE OVERRUN,
• 09:40 BECAUSE OF THE INIQUITY OF HIS PEOPLE.
• 09:45 THE WAY EZEKIEL WAS POSITIONED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT IS STRIKING.
• 09:50 AND WHY DO I SAY THAT?
• 09:52 EZEKIEL WAS A PRIEST TRAINED TO MINISTER IN THIS HOUSE.
• 09:57 EZEKIEL, HOWEVER, WAS SPIRITED WAY FROM THIS HOUSE WITH 10,000 OTHERS
• 10:03 AFTER THE BABYLONIANS ANNEXED JUDEA AS ONE OF IT'S HOLDINGS.
• 10:08 AND IN CAPTIVITY EZEKIEL WAS GIVEN A WORD.
• 10:12 BUT HE WASN'T JUST GIVEN A WORD,
• 10:15 TRAGICALLY HE WAS GIVEN AN ILLUSTRATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT WORD.
• 10:21 IF YOU'D OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES PLEASE TO EZEKIEL CHAPTER 24,
• 10:26 I WANT TO READ SOME HORRIBLE TEXT TO YOU.
• 10:31 HORRIBLE IN VERSE 16:
• 10:35 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:37 "SON OF MAN"
• 10:39 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:41 "BEHOLD"
• 10:43 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:50 "BEHOLD I WILL TAKE AWAY FROM YOU WITH ONE STROKE THE DESIRE OF YOUR EYES.
• 11:01 THE LORD TOLD EZEKIEL "I AM GOING TO TAKE YOUR WIFE'S LIFE".
• 11:09 AND THE DEATH OF EZEKIEL'S WIFE WAS RIGHT AT THE TIME WHEN
• 11:15 THIS TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM SUFFERED IT'S OWN DEATH.
• 11:22 WHEN IT WAS FINALLY OVERRUN BY THE BABYLONIANS.
• 11:25 AND IN AS MUCH AS EZEKIEL LOST THE DESIRE OF HIS EYES.
• 11:32 WE READ IN EZEKIEL 24:21 THAT THIS WAS ILLUSTRATIVE OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN JUDEA
• 11:40 AND IS MADE EXPLICIT.
• 11:42 HE SAYS AND I QUOTE:
• 12:04 TRAGIC WORDS UTTERED MANY, MANY, MANY YEARS AGO.
• 12:11 AND HERE I SIT AMONGST THE DEVASTATIONS OF A FORMER GENERATION.
• 12:19 LET ME JUST SAY PARENTHETICALLY, THAT YOU'RE INVITED TO COME AND WALK IN THESE STEPS,
• 12:26 THE ARCHEOLOGICAL PARK IN JERUSALEM,
• 12:29 AND THE DAVIDSON CENTER OF THE PARK PARTICULARLY
• 12:33 HAVE DONE A WONDERFUL JOB OF RESURRECTING ALL OF THIS.
• 12:36 BUT THE RESURRECTION OF THIS PALES IN COMPARISON TO THE RESURRECTION TO COME.
• 12:43 EZEKIEL IN THESE DARK DAYS FORECASTED GLOOMY DAYS.
• 12:49 BUT HE SAID AS WELL THAT THE BRIGHT LIGHT WILL ONCE AGAIN RISE OVER THE HORIZON
• 12:54 AND ILLUMINATE THESE STONES, THE LIMESTONE HERE IN JERUSALEM.
• 12:59 THE PROPHET HAD BAD NEWS, BUT HE CLOSED ON GOOD NEWS.
• 13:03 AND SPEAKING OF BAD AND GOOD NEWS,
• 13:05 HERE WE'RE LOOKING AT THE MIDDLE EAST 'PIECE' PROCESS FROM EZEKIEL'S PERSPECTIVE.
• 13:11 THERE'S BAD NEWS, BUT THERE'S GOOD NEWS STILL TO COME.
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• 13:52 HEY, YOU LIKE THIS GUYS? (JEFF) YEAH!!! (CROWD)
• 13:54 JOIN US IN ISRAEL FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 13:57 MY FATHER'S COME 5 TIMES BEFORE AND LOVES ISRAEL.
• 14:02 AND THIS IS IS MY 1ST TIME
• 14:05 AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW, BEYOND WORDS
• 14:07 THE MEANING OF COMING HOME.
• 14:09 IT'S BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION
• 14:13 AND I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THIS,
• 14:16 I NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE LIKE THIS.
• 14:18 AND THE EXPERIENCE HAS TO BE HAD IN PERSON.
• 14:23 ONE OF THE STORIES THAT I LOVE TO TELL IS WHEN WE'RE IN ISRAEL
• 14:26 AND PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE WITH THE LAND,
• 14:29 FALL IN LOVE WITH THE PEOPLE,
• 14:31 AND THEY COME TO US AND THEY SAY,
• 14:33 "I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE LIVED IN BIBLE TIMES."
• 14:36 AND JEFF AND I LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND KIND OF CHUCKLE AND WE SAY,
• 14:39 "YOU ARE LIVING IN BIBLE TIMES."
• 14:42 IT IS FASCINATING THE DAYS WE LIVE IN
• 14:45 AND WE ARE PLEASED TO OFFER YOU THIS WEEK, THE OFFER:
• 14:48 "ISRAEL, THE CHURCH, AND THE FUTURE,"
• 14:50 WE HAVE NEWS LETTERS,
• 14:52 WE HAVE DVDs, WE HAVE THE INTERNET.
• 14:56 MY GOODNESS WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF WAYS
• 14:58 FOR PEOPLE TO TUNE INTO US.
• 15:00 IT'S A BIBLE TEACHING MINISTRY.
• 15:02 THERE'S A GREAT STORY THERE TOO
• 15:04 ABOUT ISRAEL, THE CHURCH AND THE FUTURE
• 15:06 TO SEE HOW BIBLE PROPHECY IS BEING FULFILLED IN OUR DAY.
• 15:10 FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T AFFORD IT,
• 15:12 PEOPLE, ALL WE NEED IS YOUR TIME.
• 15:14 IF YOU WOULD GO TO:
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• 15:24 WE CARE TO GET THE WORD OUT.
• 15:26 INDIVIDUALS SUPPORT US FINANCIALLY TO ENABLE US TO DO THAT
• 15:29 AND I WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR HELPING US GET THE WORD OUT.
• 15:32 AND SPEAKING OF THE WORD AND GETTING IT OUT, IT WAS EZEKIEL'S JOB TO GET IT IN.
• 15:37 STRANGE WAS THE MOMENT WHEN GOD GAVE HIM A SCROLL AND HE SAID, "EAT IT."
• 15:41 HENCE, THE PROVERBIAL EXPRESSION, "TO EAT THESE WORDS."
• 15:45 LET'S CHECK OUT GOD'S WORD AND EZEKIEL'S WORD AS WE CONTINUE
• 15:48 WITH EZEKIEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST 'PIECE' PROCESS.
• 15:54 AND EZEKIEL REACHED TOWARDS THE LORD AND RECEIVED A SCROLL.
• 15:58 AND THE LORD SAID UNTO EZEKIEL,
• 16:00 "SON OF MAN, EAT THIS SCROLL AND GO SPEAK UNTO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL MY WORDS."
• 16:06 THE MOURNFUL MESSAGE TO ISRAEL WOULD BE TROUBLING.
• 16:10 BUT IN HIS OBEDIENCE TO GOD
• 16:12 EZEKIEL WOULD FIND THE TASTE OF THE SCROLL TO BE AS SWEET AS HONEY.
• 16:21 I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE,
• 16:23 BUT I KNOW FOR MYSELF
• 16:26 THAT WHEN I FIND MYSELF STRESSED, PERPLEXED,
• 16:30 I FIND IT TO BE VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME TO GET INTO THE SCRIPTURES.
• 16:34 FOR WHAT I WANT TO DO IS GET GOD'S WORD IN MY MIND, TO HELP ME HAVE EQUILIBRIUM.
• 16:40 TO HELP TO HAVE PEACE, TO HELP ME TO, WITH GOD'S HELP, GET NEW IDEAS
• 16:46 IN ORDER TO CONFRONT THE PRESSING CIRCUMSTANCES THAT ARE IMPOSING THEMSELVES UPON ME.
• 16:53 EZEKIEL FINDS HIMSELF IN A WORLD WHERE HE AND THE JUDEAN EXILES WERE PRESSED ROUND ABOUT.
• 17:01 AND I FIND IT INTERESTING PERSONALLY THAT THERE'S A STORY HERE
• 17:05 OF EZEKIEL COMING UPON GOD'S WORD AND BEING TOLD TO ACTUALLY EAT IT
• 17:11 AND THEN REPORTING THAT IT WAS SWEET TO HIM.
• 17:14 I FIND SOMETHING IN THIS LIVING DRAMA THAT'S SO VERY POWERFUL,
• 17:17 NOT JUST FOR EZEKIEL, BUT FOR ME.
• 17:22 I'M INTERESTED IN EZEKIEL AT ONE LEVEL BECAUSE OF THE HISTORY.
• 17:26 IT'S FASCINATING AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE AS WE FOLLOW ALONG IN THIS SERIES
• 17:30 HOW EZEKIEL ENVISIONS THE WORLD AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF TIME.
• 17:34 AND HE SAYS WHAT GOD'S GOING TO DO IN THAT WORLD
• 17:36 AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE HOW ISRAEL'S RECONSTITUTION AS NATION STATE FACTORS INTO THAT.
• 17:41 YOU'RE GOING HEAR ABOUT HOW THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ARE HELL BENT ON HER DESTRUCTION
• 17:45 AND A WHOLE LOT MORE.
• 17:47 YOU'RE GONNA LEARN ABOUT THE END GAME IN HUMAN HISTORY.
• 17:49 BUT HERE AS EZEKIEL IS PRESSED WE LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT HIS STORY
• 17:55 IN CHAPTER 3 VERSE 1 THE LORD SAYS:
• 18:01 AND THEN WE'RE TOLD THAT HE COMES UPON A SCROLL.
• 18:03 AND THEN WE'RE TOLD AT THE END OF VERSE 3
• 18:11 SO IT'S FASCINATING AND IT BEARS REMINDING,
• 18:15 THOSE OF YOU THAT NEED GOD'S PEACE PLAN FOR YOUR OWN CIRCUMSTANCES,
• 18:20 YOU'D DO WELL TO GET INTO GOD'SWORD TO DIGEST IT, TO TAKE IT IN.
• 18:25 I CAN'T UNDERSCORE THAT ENOUGH.
• 18:28 I MEAN IT'S A PASTORAL POINT AT ONE LEVEL.
• 18:30 AND YOU DON'T NEED TO WATCH NATIONAL TV,
• 18:32 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO HEAR THIS IN YOUR OWN LOCAL CHURCH.
• 18:35 BUT IT'S SO WORTH UNDERSCORING
• 18:37 THAT WHAT YOU NEED IF YOU FIND YOURSELF PRESSED IS YOU NEED TO GET IN THE WORD.
• 18:42 YOU NEED TO EAT IT, YOU NEED THAT FIBER OF THE WORD TO INFORM YOU AND TO STRENGTHEN YOU.
• 18:49 AND IN AS MUCH AS EZEKIEL'S NAME MEANS, "GOD STRENGTHENS,"
• 18:52 THAT YOU CAN DO WHAT EZEKIEL DID AND GET STRENGTHENED.
• 18:55 WELL HE WAS STRENGTHENED FOR A PURPOSE, BEYOND HIS OWN NEEDING TO RECOVER EQUILIBRIUM.
• 18:59 WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 10 OF THIS SAME CHAPTER, CHAPTER 3
• 19:04 THE LORD SAYS:
• 19:13 FIRST THING WE HAVE TO DO IS OPEN OURSELVES UP TO HEAR THE SCRIPTURES.
• 19:17 TO GET THEM IN OUR MIND AND THEN TO OPEN UP OUR HEART,
• 19:20 LET IT GO THROUGH OUR EARS, INTO OUR MIND AND THEN DOWN INTO OUR HEART.
• 19:40 LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, EZEKIEL HAD A REALLY TOUGH ASSIGNMENT.
• 19:45 AND HE WAS STRENGTHENED FOR THE TASK IN PART,
• 19:48 BECAUSE HE HAD A GODLY VISION.
• 19:51 THE LORD HAD SHOWN UP AND GIVEN HIM A VISION OF WHO HE WAS,
• 19:56 A FANTASTIC VISION.
• 19:58 AND WITH THAT HE WAS STRENGTHENED,
• 20:02 IN FACT HIS NAME MEANS, "GOD STRENGTHENS," AS I'VE SAID, RATHER PROVIDENTIAL IT SEEMS.
• 20:07 IN ANY CASE WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A STORY OF A MAN WHO'S BEING GIRDED UP.
• 20:11 HE'S GETTING INTO THE WORD, HE'S STUDYING UP, HE'S ENCOURAGED TO SPEAK UP.
• 20:17 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 20:18 BECAUSE GOD WAS GOING TO WORK THROUGH EZEKIEL TO TELL THE STORY
• 20:22 TO LOOK AT THE UNFOLDING OF THE MYSTERY OF THE AGES.
• 20:26 FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT FOLLOW ME THROUGH EZEKIEL,
• 20:30 WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A WHIRLWIND TRIP THROUGH TIME.
• 20:33 WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO EZEKIEL'S TIME.
• 20:36 WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE PRESENT TIME AND THEN A TIME TO COME.
• 20:41 AS WE CONSIDER GOD'S PEACE PLAN.
• 20:43 WE CONSIDER ABC, NBC, FOX NEWS,
• 20:47 AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR BIBLE NEWS AND YOU'RE GONNA BE FASCINATED.
• 20:51 THIS MAN ATE THE WORD, HE GOT THE MIND OF THE LORD,
• 20:55 AND HE GAVE A WORD THAT'S SPELL BINDING FOR ITS POTENCY.
• 20:59 YOU'RE GONNA BE DRAWN INTO EZEKIEL'S WORLD
• 21:02 AND YOU'RE GONNA SEE THE WORLD AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF TIME.
• 21:05 AND IN THE PROCESS OF SO DOING, I HOPE YOU'LL GET A WORD FOR YOUR OWN TIME
• 21:10 AND BE REMINDED OF THE FACT THAT AT THE END OF DAYS
• 21:13 GOD HAS A PEACE PLAN TO RESTORE PEACE TO YOU PERSONALLY
• 21:16 AND RESTORE PEACE TO THE WORLD AT LARGE.
• 21:27 ♪(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)♪
• 22:24 ZOLA WROTE OVER 50 ALBUMS OF MUSIC.
• 22:28 THE MUSIC THAT YOU JUST HEARD IS JUST ONE OF THOSE SONGS.
• 22:32 HIS MUSIC REALLY SPEAKS TO THE JEWISHNESS OF THE MESSIAH AND THE JEWISHNESS OF THE WORD.
• 22:38 JEFF, I'M LISTENING TO YOUR TEACHING,
• 22:40 I'M LISTENING TO ALL ABOUT EZEKIEL,
• 22:43 HOW HUMBLE HE WAS,
• 22:44 HOW SUBMISSIVE HE WAS,
• 22:45 EATING GOD'S WORD,
• 22:46 AND YET VERY SUBMISSIVE TO GOD.
• 22:48 AND IN A MINUTE WE'RE GONNA HEAR FROM RABBI KOHEN.
• 22:53 DOESN'T MAKE ANY MUSIC,
• 22:55 BUT HE LOOKS A LITTLE BIT LIKE ZOLA LEVITT.
• 22:59 AN INTERESTING FELLOW, RABBI KOHEN IS.
• 23:02 HE IS AN ORTHODOX JEWISH RABBI, YESHIVA TRAINED, A SERIOUS SCHOLAR,
• 23:07 DRAWS FROM THE JEWISH BIBLE, FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE,
• 23:12 HAS COMMITMENTS TO THE JEWISH TRADITIONAL INTERPRETATION OF THE TEXT
• 23:16 AND HE GOES INTO THE INTERESTING ANCIENT WORD
• 23:19 AND FINDS APPLICATIONS FOR TODAY THAT WOULD RELATE TO PROPHECY.
• 23:23 AND HERE NOW IS SANDRA LEVITT WITH RABBI KOHEN.
• 23:28 RABBI KOHEN, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US,
• 23:30 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EZEKIEL.
• 23:31 WE'RE IN A NEW SERIES, THE EZEKIEL SERIES
• 23:34 AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW PROPHECY REALLY IS PART OF OUR LIVES,
• 23:38 NOT ONLY TODAY, BUT THE FUTURE.
• 23:40 AND I LOVE THE STORY ABOUT YOU
• 23:42 GETTING TOGETHER WITH A GROUP OF PEOPLE
• 23:44 AND THEY HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT PROPHECY.
• 23:47 HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT?
• 23:49 IN ONE OF OUR STUDY GROUPS
• 23:51 I BEGAN TO INCLUDE THE TOPIC OF PROPHECY
• 23:56 AND THE REASON FOR IT WAS
• 23:58 TO HAVE THE PEOPLE AT LEAST UNDERSTAND
• 24:03 THAT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD
• 24:06 IS ORCHESTRATED BY GOD, WE'RE IN GOOD HANDS.
• 24:11 WE'RE IN GOOD HANDS, RIGHT.
• 24:12 EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T UNDERSTAND NECESSARILY THE DAY TO DAY AFFAIRS,
• 24:17 BUT JUST KNOWING THAT HE'S IN CHARGE WAS COMFORTING FOR THEM.
• 24:24 I LIKE THAT ISRAEL HAS BECOME A NATION AGAIN.
• 24:26 FOR ME THAT JUST SAYS IT ALL.
• 24:28 THAT GOD SAYS,
• 24:30 "I AM GOING TO MAKE AN EVERLASTING COVENANT
• 24:33 WITH YOU, ISRAEL, AND HE DOES.
• 24:34 AND NEVER TO BE TAKEN OUT OF THE LAND AGAIN
• 24:36 AND THEIR HOME AGAIN.
• 24:38 AND I THINK THAT FOR ME IS A TIME CLOCK,
• 24:39 THAT ISRAEL STARTS IN 48 WHEN THEY BECAME A STATE.
• 24:43 BUT ACTUALLY IT STARTS A LITTLE BIT BEFORE,
• 24:47 SO YOU GO BACK IN EZEKIEL WHERE EZEKIEL TALKS ABOUT
• 24:52 THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL ARE GOING TO BRING FORTH
• 24:56 BLOSSOMS, NECTAR.
• 24:58 AND YOU KNOW WHAT, WHAT'S MARVELOUS, WHAT'S MIRACULOUS
• 25:03 IS THAT FOR 1800 YEARS
• 25:05 ISRAEL WAS A DESERT RIGHT
• 25:07 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN OUT OF NOWHERE IT BLOSSOMS AND... RIGHT
• 25:10 RIGHT. YOU'RE RIGHT. I'M NOT RIGHT.
• 25:15 NO, IT'S THE HISTORY THAT'S RIGHT.
• 25:17 WE SEE IT BLOOMING, WE SEE THE DESERT REALLY COMING TO LIFE.
• 25:20 AND THEN EZEKIEL SAYS IT'S FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RETURNING.
• 25:26 RABBI KOHEN IS A FASCINATING HUMAN BEING.
• 25:30 AND I'M SO PLEASED THAT YOU WERE EXPOSED TO HIM,
• 25:32 IN PART BECAUSE HE GIVES YOU A WINDOW INTO THE ORTHODOX JEWISH WORLD, WHERE HE FAIRS FROM.
• 25:39 AND HE DRAWS US INTO A PERSPECTIVE OF PROPHECY.
• 25:45 IN OUR SERIES, EZEKIEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST 'PIECE' PROCESS,
• 25:49 WE WANNA LOOK AT THE END GAME, PIECE, BY PIECE, BY PIECE.
• 25:55 IT'S LIKE THE WORLD IS PUZZLING AND IT'S A PUZZLE.
• 25:59 BUT EZEKIEL SEES 1 PIECE, 2 PIECE, 3 PIECE, 4 PIECE.
• 26:03 HE HAS A PROGRESSION THAT GET'S US
• 26:06 RIGHT TO GOD'S FIXING THE PROBLEMS INHERENT IN HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
• 26:11 AND WE'RE GONNA LEARN WHAT EZEKIEL SAYS OR WHAT GOD SAYS THROUGH THE PROPHET, EZEKIEL.
• 26:16 YOU KNOW EACH WEEK I CLOSE WITH, "SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM",
• 26:19 "PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM".
• 26:22 I'M TALKING ABOUT 'PEACE', WHERE THERE IS THE FINAL PEACE.
• 26:27 THERE IS NO MORE WAR, NO MORE SORROW, NO MORE PAIN.
• 26:31 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE PEACE OF BEING WITH GOD,
• 26:34 FOREVER AND EVER.
• 26:35 AND YOU'RE GONNA SHOW US AS WE GO THROUGH THIS PROGRAM
• 26:37 HOW THE PIECES FIT TOGETHER,
• 26:40 SO THAT WE ALL HAVE PEACE AT THE END.
• 26:42 AND THAT'S JUST A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL PROGRAM.
• 26:45 STAY TUNED.
• 26:46 AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:47 SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:49 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM