Caption transcript for Ezekiel and the MidEast ‘Piece’ Process: “Judah’s Demise” (3/8)

• 00:04 WITH DR. JEFFERY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT
• 00:09 THE LORD SAID UNTO EZEKIEL,
• 00:11 "SON OF MAN, CAN THESE BONES LIVE?"
• 00:21 "PROPHECY UPON THESE BONES AND SAY UNTO THEM,"
• 00:25 "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 MY CO-HOST SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:08 SHALOM
• 01:09 AND WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS EZEKIEL
• 01:10 GOD ALONE HAS GIVEN ISRAEL HER GLORY
• 01:14 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN SHE THINKS IT'S HER.
• 01:17 YES IT'S A WOMAN THAT IS UNFAITHFUL TO GOD.
• 01:20 THERE'S A BAD STORY IN EZEKIEL
• 01:23 AS YOU HAD ALLUDED
• 01:24 GOD TAKES THIS BABY GIRL IN,
• 01:26 RAISES HER UP, MARRIES HER,
• 01:27 GIVES HER EVERYTHING
• 01:29 BUT SHE GOES BAD.
• 01:31 SHE TURNS AWAY FROM GOD.
• 01:33 IT'S A STORY OF TODAY ALSO
• 01:35 DON'T WE SOMETIMES GET CAUGHT UP AND TURN AWAY FROM GOD?
• 01:38 THERE MAY BE FOLK WATCHING THAT STARTED OFF GOOD BUT WENT BAD.
• 01:42 THERE'S A JUDGMENT THAT'S BROUGHT TO BEAR ON THAT,
• 01:44 WE'LL CONSIDER THE STORY
• 01:46 AS WE ENTER IN TO EZEKIEL'S WORLD AND SEE WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT WORLD'S END
• 01:51 AS WE CONTINUE OUR STORY OF EZEKIEL AND THE MID-EAST PIECE PROCESS.
• 01:55 BUT OFF WE GO NOW TO A WORLD GONE BAD
• 01:58 AS WE CONSIDER A STORY OF JUDAH'S FAITHLESSNESS.
• 02:05 IT HAD BECOME LIKE A LEWD MARKETPLACE.
• 02:08 ONCE A HOMELESS ISRAEL HAD BECOME A GLORIOUS NATION.
• 02:12 SHE HAD BEEN FAITHFUL TO THE LORD
• 02:14 BUT LIKE A WAYWARD WIFE JERUSALEM HAD FORGOTTEN HER TRUE LOVE.
• 02:18 SHE WAS NOW FORNICATING WITH FOREIGN GODS,
• 02:21 LIKE A HARLOT WHO POURETH OUT FORNICATIONS ON EVERYONE THAT PASSETH BY.
• 02:27 AND THE LORD SAID UNTO EZEKIEL, "CAUSE JERUSALEM TO KNOW HER ABOMINATIONS."
• 02:32 "WHEREFORE, OH HARLOT HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD."
• 02:35 "THEY SHALL BRING UP A COMPANY AGAINST THEE"
• 02:38 "AND THEY SHALL STONE THEE WITH STONES"
• 02:40 "AND THRUST THEE THROUGH WITH THEIR SWORDS."
• 02:42 "SO WILL I MAKE MY FURY TOWARD THEE TO REST"
• 02:46 "AND I WILL BE QUIET AND WILL NO MORE BE ANGRY."
• 02:54 THE EZEKIEL TEXTS ARE JUST RIFE WITH VISIONS
• 02:58 AND HERE HE ENVISIONS A STORY;
• 03:00 A FASCINATING STORY,
• 03:02 A SCARY STORY,
• 03:04 A STORY ABOUT A GIRL GONE BAD.
• 03:06 I WANT YOU TO LOOK IN YOUR BIBLES PLEASE TO THE 16TH CHAPTER OF EZEKIEL.
• 03:11 YOU GO AHEAD AND READ IT IN YOUR VERSION, I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU IN MINE.
• 03:14 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:19 "AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME SAYING,"
• 03:22 (SPEAKING HEBREW) "SON OF MAN"
• 03:26 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:32 SON OF MAN
• 03:33 CAUSE JERUSALEM TO KNOW
• 03:36 HER ABOMINATIONS.
• 03:38 FOR CENTURIES JUDAH WAS ON A DOWNWARD SPIRAL.
• 03:43 AND AS RESULT OF JUDAH'S PERFIDY, HER FAITHLESSNESS,
• 03:47 JUDGMENT WAS MANDATED AT A POINT IN TIME OUT THERE IN THE FUTURE.
• 03:52 GIVEN THAT SHE WAS RECALCITRANT,
• 03:54 THAT IS SHE REFUSED TO CORRECT HERSELF;
• 03:57 SHE WAS STIFF NECKED, SHE REFUSED TO BOW,
• 04:00 SHE REFUSED TO BE CORRECTED
• 04:02 AND SO SHE WAS GOING TO BE IMPOSED UPON.
• 04:06 BUT THE STORY IS TOLD HERE
• 04:08 AND I FRANKLY THINK ITS ONE OF THE MOST SHOCKING STORIES IN THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE.
• 04:12 PLAYED OUT AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF A LITTLE GIRL,
• 04:15 AN UNWANTED LITTLE GIRL,
• 04:17 THROWN OUT ON AN OPEN FIELD.
• 04:19 SO DISINTERESTED IN HER WAS THE FAMILY THEY DIDN'T BOTHER TO WASH HER AND CLEAN HER.
• 04:24 THEY JUST SAW HER AND THREW HER AWAY AND THERE SHE WAS IN A DUMP.
• 04:28 AND THEN WE'RE TOLD THAT A MAN OF MEANS PASSED BY
• 04:31 WHO HAD PITY ON HER,
• 04:33 ON THE ONE WHO NO OTHER EYE WOULD PITY THIS UNFORTUNATE LITTLE GIRL.
• 04:37 AND HE TOOK HER IN.
• 04:39 HE WASHED HER, HE TOOK CARE OF HER, RAISED HER UP, GAVE HER THE BEST OF EVERYTHING AS A DAUGHTER
• 04:45 AND THEN SHE CAME OF AGE
• 04:47 AND HE FELL IN LOVE WITH HER AND SHE CAME UNDER HIS PROTECTION.
• 04:51 THE NET RESULT IS THAT SHE WHO WAS BORN IN A DUMP BECAME A QUEEN
• 04:57 AND SHE ENJOYED A PRIVILEGED STATUS IN A PLACE COMPARABLE TO THIS.
• 05:02 RUINS LIKE THIS ARE FOUND ALL OVER THE HOLY LAND, HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS.
• 05:07 THE ANTIQUITIES DEPARTMENT ISN'T ABLE TO KEEP TOUCH; CAN'T KEEP TRACK, CAN'T DIG IT ALL UP.
• 05:12 BUT THERE'S STORIES AMONGST THE FELLED STONES OF LIVES LIVED IN THIS PLACE AND OTHERS LIKE IT.
• 05:18 AND ONCE UPON A TIME IN A RATHER PRIVILEGED PLACE THERE'S A WOMAN BROUGHT INTO THAT WORLD.
• 05:23 BUT THEN SHE WENT BAD.
• 05:25 WE'RE TOLD THIS GIRL GREW UP AND BECAME BEAUTIFUL AND SHE KNEW IT.
• 05:30 THAT WAS HER PROBLEM, SHE KNEW IT.
• 05:33 AND WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 14,
• 05:36 I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THIS,
• 05:41 SHE WAS MISS UNIVERSE.
• 05:48 THAT IS, THE LORD DOTED ON HER AND RAISED HER UP
• 05:51 AND THAT CONTRIBUTES TO WHY SHE WAS SO GORGEOUS.
• 05:54 BUT SHE KNEW IT, SHE WAS OVERLY INVESTED IN IT,
• 05:58 AND WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 15 TRAGICALLY,
• 06:11 THERE'S A STORY HERE OF A WOMAN WHO SPURNS HER NOBLE HUSBAND.
• 06:15 SHE'S DRIVEN BY A DESIRE FOR SEX; SHE'S DRIVEN BY A SPIRIT OF HARLOTRY.
• 06:21 SHE WANTS MORE AND SHE WANTS MORE AND SHE WANTS MORE.
• 06:25 AND THE IRONY OF IT IS AMAZING
• 06:27 BECAUSE GOD HAD BLESSED HER SO MUCH
• 06:30 AND THE FACT THAT SHE SPURNED HIM WAS PARTICULARLY EGREGIOUS.
• 06:35 NOW REMEMBER THE BACKGROUND IN THIS STORY,
• 06:37 "THUS SAITH THE LORD,"
• 06:39 "CAUSE JERUSALEM TO KNOW HER ABOMINATIONS"
• 06:42 "FOR JERUSALEM", SAYS EZEKIEL,
• 06:45 "YOU ARE THE WOMAN."
• 06:51 AND THE SPIRIT SAID UNTO EZEKIEL,
• 06:54 "BEHOLD THEY SHALL PUT BANDS UPON THEE"
• 06:57 "AND SHALL BIND THEE WITH THEM"
• 07:00 "AND THOU SHALL NOT GO OUT AMONG THEM"
• 07:02 "AND I WILL MAKE THY TONGUE CLEAVE TO THE ROOF OF THY MOUTH FOR THEY ARE A REBELLIOUS HOUSE"
• 07:15 I'M SURE THAT HE WAS PERPLEXED AT ONE LEVEL, EZEKIEL.
• 07:19 WHAT TO DO?
• 07:21 HE WAS SO STIRRED UP INSIDE BECAUSE THINGS WERE SO BAD HE WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING.
• 07:25 HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THAT WAY AS A PARENT?
• 07:26 THERE'S A CHILD YOU WANTED TO REPROVE?
• 07:28 SHOULD YOU TALK TO THEM OR SHOULDN'T YOU?
• 07:30 THAT IS THE QUESTION.
• 07:31 SOMETIMES WE CAN HAVE PROBLEMS WITH PEOPLE IN OUR WEBS OF RELATIONSHIPS;
• 07:34 A CHILD, A SPOUSE, AN EMPLOYER, A SUBORDINATE, WHATEVER.
• 07:38 TO SPEAK OR NOT TO SPEAK?
• 07:40 THAT IS THE QUESTION.
• 07:42 EZEKIEL WAS A PROPHET AND THE WORD "PROPHET" MEANS IN EFFECT TO "SPEAK FORTH"
• 07:47 BUT SOMETIMES THE WORD FOR THE PROPHET IS "TO BE SILENT".
• 07:51 THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS EARLIER ON IN THE EZEKIEL TEXT IN THE 3RD CHAPTER
• 07:56 EZEKIEL IS TAKEN AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS MINISTRY
• 07:59 AND HE'S TAKEN INTO HIS HOME
• 08:01 WHERE HE'S BOUND UP WITH ROPES, HE'S TIED UP.
• 08:05 WHAT A DRAMA!
• 08:06 AND NOT ONLY IS HIS BODY TIED UP
• 08:08 BUT IN FACT, HIS MOUTH IS TIED UP.
• 08:10 WE'RE TOLD IN CHAPTER 3,VERSE 26
• 08:13 THAT HE'S GOING TO BE DUMB.
• 08:14 HIS MOUTH'S TIED UP
• 08:15 AS IS HIS BODY
• 08:17 UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE LORD SAYS
• 08:19 "THIS IS THE TIME,"
• 08:21 "THE TIME TO SPEAK"
• 08:22 AND THEN YOU HAVE IN VERSE 27,
• 08:26 AND WHAT DID HE TELL HIM TO SAY?
• 08:28 IT'S NOT A HAPPY WORD AT ONE LEVEL
• 08:32 BECAUSE AS HAS BEEN CONSIDERED ALREADY,
• 08:36 EZEKIEL WAS VERY CONFRONTATIONAL.
• 08:40 IN THE 16TH CHAPTER HE PAINTS A PICTURE OF A WORLD GONE BAD.
• 08:45 THERE'S ANALOGY OF A LITTLE GIRL WHO CORRUPTED HERSELF.
• 08:49 SHE HAD EVERYTHING BUT SHE CAME TO RUIN.
• 08:52 AND WE CAN HEAR THE PROPHET SPEAK...
• 08:55 ACTUALLY WE CAN HEAR THE LORD SPEAK
• 08:57 IF YOU'LL LOOK IN CHAPTER 16, VERSE 35
• 09:00 AND IT'S TRAGIC WHAT WE'RE GOING TO HEAR.
• 09:03 FIRST, IN MY TRANSLATION
• 09:05 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 09:09 "WHEREFORE O HARLOT"
• 09:13 "HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD."
• 09:15 THINK ABOUT IT FOR A MINUTE.
• 09:17 FOR SOMEONE TO SPEAK TO THEIR WIFE, THEIR BELOVED
• 09:21 AND LOOK THEM STRAIGHT IN THE EYE AND SAY, "HEAR O HARLOT"
• 09:27 IT'S A HARD WORD BUT THESE ARE HARD TIMES.
• 09:30 AND THIS WOMAN HAS BEEN HARDENED WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME
• 09:33 AS SHE SPURNED THE LORD HER GOD AND GIVEN HER AFFECTIONS TO OTHERS.
• 09:38 AND WHAT'S GOING TO BECOME OF ALL OF THAT?
• 09:40 WELL, THIS GETS BAD I NEED TO WARN YOU.
• 09:42 IN VERSE 37 HE SAYS,
• 09:53 AND THEN HE SAYS IN VERSE 39,
• 09:59 I MEAN THIS GOES BAD.
• 10:10 THIS IS HORRIBLE!
• 10:13 SHE MADE FRIENDS WITH THESE PEOPLE
• 10:15 AND THEN SHE IS BETRAYED BY THEM.
• 10:18 AND SO IT IS THAT THE LORD DOES JUST THAT.
• 10:23 EZEKIEL TELLS THE STORY OF GOD'S CONFRONTING HIS PEOPLE WITH HER WAYWARDNESS.
• 10:29 THAT'S THE BAD NEWS.
• 10:31 THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THERE IS A RESTORATION MOTIF.
• 10:35 BUT BEFORE THE GOOD NEWS GETS GOOD THE BAD NEWS GETS BAD.
• 10:41 AND MINDFUL OF THAT, CAN I SPEAK TO YOU FRANKLY?
• 10:44 IF THERE'S SOMEONE WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE
• 10:47 THAT HAS WANDERED AWAY FROM GOD AND YOU'RE NOT LIVING RIGHT,
• 10:50 CAN I ENCOURAGE YOU AS EZEKIEL'S ENCOURAGING THEM TO FIX THAT?
• 10:55 I BELIEVE THAT THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME SHOULD BE SEIZED WITHIN THE LIFETIME OF THE OPPORTUNITY.
• 11:01 AND IF THERE'S ANY KIND OF CONVICTION, ANYTHING WELLING WITHIN YOU,
• 11:05 WHY DON'T YOU REACH UP TO GOD AND GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES
• 11:09 AND REPENT OF YOUR SINS AND REACH UP TO HIM FOR A BETTER WORLD?
• 11:13 AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THERE'S A BETTER WORLD THAT'LL DAWN OVER THAT HORIZON.
• 11:17 BUT OF COURSE THE DECISION IS UP TO YOU.
• 11:20 HERE THE PROPHET IS DRACONIAN, HE'S HARSH, HE'S IN YOUR FACE.
• 11:26 AND HE DOESN'T DO THAT BECAUSE HE'S IN A PARTICULARLY BAD MOOD,
• 11:29 HE DOES IT BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE ARE HARD HEARTED,
• 11:32 WHEN THEY'RE STUBBORN, WHEN THEY'RE HARDENED BY SIN ITS HARD TO PENETRATE.
• 11:38 AND SO HERE UNDER THE INSPIRATION OF THE "RUACH HAKODESH", THE HOLY SPIRIT,
• 11:43 EZEKIEL IS WORKING UP A STORY
• 11:46 HOPING TO GET PAST THE DESENSITIZED MANNER OF HIS CONSTITUENTS.
• 11:51 BUT IT WAS TO NO AVAIL AT THE END OF THE DAY,
• 11:53 THEY DIDN'T LISTEN.
• 11:55 AND SO IT IS THE ENGINES OF DESTRUCTIONS ROLLED ON NOT TO BE AVERTED.
• 11:59 THERE WASN'T REPENTANCE AND SO IT IS ISRAEL CAME TO RUIN.
• 12:03 THAT'S THE BAD NEWS BUT THERE'S A GOOD NEWS ON THE OTHER END OF THE SENTENCE.
• 12:15 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
• 12:19 ASK FOR OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER THE LEVITT LETTER.
• 12:22 WHEN YOU CALL, BE SURE TO ASK FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE WITH THE LATEST VIDEOS, BOOKS, AND MUSIC.
• 12:28 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, "THE INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CHRISTIAN STUDIES" INCLUDES:
• 12:32 READING PACKETS, TEACHING CDs, AND MAIL IN TESTS.
• 12:36 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA.
• 12:39 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN, VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
• 12:42 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
• 12:46 (Jeff) HEY, YOU LIKE THIS GUYS? (Crowd) YEAH!!!
• 12:48 (Announcer) JOIN US IN ISRAEL FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 12:52 MY FATHER'S COME 5 TIMES BEFORE AND LOVES ISRAEL.
• 12:56 AND THIS IS MY 1ST TIME AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW,
• 12:59 BEYOND WORDS THE MEANING OF COMING HOME.
• 13:03 IT'S BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION
• 13:06 AND I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THIS,
• 13:09 I NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE LIKE THIS.
• 13:11 THAT THE EXPERIENCE HAS TO BE HAD IN PERSON.
• 13:16 GOING TO ISRAEL,
• 13:18 SEEING WHERE THE PROPHETS WALKED,
• 13:19 SEEING WHERE THE PROPHETS TALKED,
• 13:21 AND TAUGHT ABOUT JERUSALEM, ABOUT ISRAEL,
• 13:24 IS ANOTHER REASON FOR US TO GO TO ISRAEL.
• 13:26 IT IS THE LAND OF GOD.
• 13:28 A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
• 13:31 AND TO GO AND PARTICIPATE
• 13:33 IN THE LIVING DRAMA,
• 13:34 IT'S HARD TO PUT IT IN WORDS ISN'T?
• 13:36 WE SEE EXACTLY WHAT THE PROPHETS ARE TALKING IN THE BIBLE.
• 13:38 THIS IS WORTH, AS YOU SAY, A THOUSAND WORDS.
• 13:43 YES AND WHY SHOULD SANDRA AND JEFFREY SEIF HAVE ALL THE FUN?
• 13:47 GO THERE, GO WITH SOMEONE, COME WITH US,
• 13:49 WE'D LOVE FOR YOU TO DO IT.
• 13:51 1-800-WONDERS IS THE GO-TO NUMBER
• 13:54 IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT ABOUT GOING TO ISRAEL.
• 13:56 IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT US
• 13:59 WE HAVE A MAGAZINE, "THE LEVITT LETTER".
• 14:02 YOU CAN CALL THAT NUMBER I JUST MENTIONED OR GO TO LEVITT.COM.
• 14:06 WE'RE HAPPY TO SEND IT TO YOU FOR THE ASKING.
• 14:08 IT'S CHOCK FULL OF GREAT INFORMATION ABOUT THE HOLY LAND,
• 14:13 ABOUT WHAT GOD IS DOING IN THE WORLD TODAY
• 14:14 TO AND THROUGH THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 14:17 SPEAKING OF WHAT GOD IS DOING TODAY, ITS NOT A HAPPY PICTURE
• 14:21 BUT IT IS A PICTURE THAT YOU SEE ON THE NEWS.
• 14:23 IF YOU WANT TO GET THE "GOOD NEWS" PERSPECTIVE ON IT
• 14:26 WE HAVE THE "AGE OF TERROR" WITH A FORMER TERRORIST, WALID SHOEBAT.
• 14:32 IT'S A GREAT DVD TO GET SOME INFORMATION ON A TOUGH SUBJECT.
• 14:36 AND SPEAKING ABOUT INFORMATION IN A TOUGH SUBJECT OFF WE GO.
• 14:40 WE'RE LOOKING AT JUDGMENT.
• 14:42 WE HAVE A PROPHET WHO LAID ON ONE SIDE AND THEN ON THE OTHER
• 14:45 TO SAY THAT JUDAH AND ISRAEL WERE GOING TO BE PUT ON THEIR SIDES
• 14:48 UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THEY COME TO TERMS WITH THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
• 14:57 THE LORD HAD DIRE WARNINGS FOR HIS CONTENTIOUS PEOPLE.
• 15:01 "LIE LOW UPON THY LEFT SIDE FOR 390 DAYS", HE SAYS TO EZEKIEL.
• 15:08 FACING NORTH IN THIS POSITION WAS SYMBOLIC OF GOD'S JUDGMENT
• 15:12 ON THE NORTHERN KINGDOM OF ISRAEL.
• 15:15 EZEKIEL IS THEN TOLD TO LIE ON HIS RIGHT SIDE FACING JUDAH.
• 15:19 "THOU SHALT BEAR THE INIQUITIES OF JUDAH 40 DAYS."
• 15:23 "I HAVE APPOINTED THEE EACH DAY FOR A YEAR."
• 15:30 IN EZEKIEL, CHAPTER 16, VERSE 59,THE LORD SAYS, QUOTE:
• 15:43 GOD SAYS, "HEY LISTEN, YOU SCREWED UP."
• 15:45 "WELL, I'M GOING TO DEAL WITH YOU"
• 15:47 "IN AS MUCH AS YOU'VE MESSED UP,"
• 15:49 "I'M GOING TO MESS YOU UP A LITTLE BIT."
• 15:51 THERE'S A JEWISH EXPRESSION, "MEASURE FOR MEASURE, YOU SOWED IT, YOU REAP IT."
• 15:58 GOD REPRESENTS HIMSELF THIS WAY, BUT NOT JUST THIS WAY.
• 16:01 IN AS MUCH AS WE KNOW THAT HE WAS GIVEN TOWARD DISCIPLINING JUDAH, A MAJOR PIECE IN THE PUZZLE...
• 16:09 IN THE PUZZLING WAY THAT GOD DEALS WITH HUMANITY GENERALLY AND WITH JUDAH PARTICULARLY,
• 16:15 INTERESTING IS THE FACT THAT THOUGH THEY HAVE MESSED UP,
• 16:19 GOD'S MERCY IS GOING TO GET THE BETTER OF HIS JUDGMENT.
• 16:22 HE SAYS IN VERSE 60...AND THIS IS SUCH GOOD NEWS
• 16:25 I'VE BEEN WAITING THIS WHOLE PROGRAM, PROGRAM NUMBER 3 TO GET TO THIS.
• 16:39 GOD DISCIPLINES BUT HE DOESN'T THROW OUT.
• 16:41 THE DISCIPLINE IS SOMETHING THAT'S DUE CHILDREN
• 16:44 AND IT'S MEANT FOR OUR MORAL AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT.
• 16:48 IT'S NOT REFLECTIVE OF WANTING TO ABANDON US OUTRIGHT.
• 16:51 REMEMBER THAT THIS LITTLE GIRL WAS ABANDONED INITIALLY AND GOD WANTED TO BRING HER IN.
• 16:56 GOD FINDS US AS CASTAWAYS IN SO MANY WAYS.
• 16:59 AND WHAT HE WANTS TO DO IS BRING US INTO HIS FAMILY AND MAKE US PART OF HIS BRIDE.
• 17:05 IT'S A STORY THAT'S INITIATED HERE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
• 17:08 AND THEN IT BLEEDS OVER INTO THE NEW TESTAMENT AS WELL.
• 17:11 IT'S THROUGHOUT THE LITERATURE.
• 17:12 GOD WANTS TO BRING US INTO HIS WORLD.
• 17:14 SINS NOTWITHSTANDING, HERE WE HAVE AN OFFER ON THE TABLE.
• 17:19 GOD SAYS. "LISTEN, I WANT TO BRING YOU IN."
• 17:21 "NEVERTHELESS, THOUGH, I'M MINDFUL OF YOUR SINFULNESS."
• 17:24 "I WON'T FOREVER CHARGE THAT AGAINST YOUR ACCOUNT."
• 17:27 HE SAYS IN VERSE 62,
• 17:38 ACTUALLY, THE EXPRESSION, "THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD" IS EMPLOYED SOME 90 TIMES IN THE EZEKIEL STORY.
• 17:46 GOD...HE DISCIPLINES THE NATION.
• 17:48 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE EZEKIEL TEXT WE LEARN THERE OF GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON JUDAH,
• 17:53 GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON THE NATION STATES AROUND JUDAH,
• 17:56 BUT THAT'S ANOTHER STORY.
• 17:57 AND EVEN THOUGH GOD'S JUDGMENT WILL BE BROUGHT TO BEAR,
• 18:00 HIS MERCIES WILL COME AT THE END OF DAYS.
• 18:02 AND HERE HE SAYS, "GUYS, I'M GOING TO LET IT ALL LOOSE."
• 18:05 THAT IS TO SAY, "THESE ARMIES ARE GOING TO COME UPON YOU."
• 18:08 AND IT'S BEEN RATHER HARSH;
• 18:10 HE'S DISCIPLINED THIS FAITHLESS BRIDE.
• 18:13 BUT HE SAYS IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT OR AFTER ALL THAT,
• 18:16 "I'M GOING TO REMEMBER IT AT THE END OF THE DAY HOW MUCH I LOVED YOU WHEN IT ALL BEGAN."
• 18:20 AND THE KINDER SIDE OF HIS NATURE,
• 18:24 HIS WANTING TO BE KINDLY DISPOSED TOWARD HER,
• 18:27 WILL GET THE BETTER OF HIS ANGST OVER HER POOR PERFORMANCE.
• 18:29 AND THAT'S A GREAT STORY NOT JUST FOR JEWS BUT IT'S A STORY FOR ALL OF "YOUS".
• 18:34 IT'S AN ETERNAL STORY THAT NEEDS TO BE TOLD DOOR TO DOOR, GENERATION TO GENERATION.
• 18:39 IT'S A STORY OF THOUGH WE FAIL THERE'S A GOD WITH UNFAILING LOVE.
• 18:45 AND THAT IS SUCH GOOD NEWS BECAUSE IF YOU'RE LIKE ME,
• 18:48 WE'RE CONFRONTED WITH OUR DAILY TRESPASSES.
• 18:52 THE LORD SAID, "FORGIVE US OUR DAILY TRESPASSES IN AS MUCH AS WE WILL FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US."
• 18:59 THE WHOLE FORGIVENESS MOTIF IS IMPORTANT.
• 19:02 I KNOW PEOPLE THINK THAT JUST BEGAN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ECONOMY, BUT NOT SO,
• 19:06 THERE'S A GLORIOUS STORY HERE OF GOD'S PLAN FOR ISRAEL.
• 19:10 HE FOUND HER AS A CASTAWAY; HE'S NOT GOING TO CAST HER AWAY.
• 19:14 YES SHE WILL BE DISCIPLINED,
• 19:15 YES SHE HAD IT COMING.
• 19:17 BUT BECAUSE OF WHO GOD IS, WHAT SHE HAS COMING IS A GRACE THAT TRIUMPHS OVER JUDGMENT.
• 19:22 AND SO HE SAYS THAT, "I WILL FORGIVE YOU."
• 19:26 IN VERSE 63:
• 19:36 BOY, ISN'T THAT A GREAT WAY TO CLOSE OUT A TEACHING SEGMENT,
• 19:39 TO REMIND THERE'S A GOD WHO WILL FORGIVE US FOR ALL THAT WE HAVE DONE?
• 19:46 YOU MIGHT BE THINKING THAT YOU HAVE BECOME UNDONE BY FORCES WORKING UPON YOU,
• 19:53 THAT YOU'VE GIVEN IN TO TEMPTATION, YOU'VE RUINED YOURSELF,
• 19:56 YOU'RE NOT ONLY VITIATED OR DEFILED YOURSELF,
• 19:59 BUT YOU'VE DISTURBED OTHERS IN YOUR WEBS OF RELATIONSHIP AND YOUR HOUSE IS FALLING APART,
• 20:06 NOT NECESSARILY JUST INTERNALLY BUT RELATIONALLY AS WELL.
• 20:10 YOU COULD HAVE MADE A SHIPWRECK OF YOUR LIFE.
• 20:13 AND THE TRUTH IS YOU HAD IT COMING.
• 20:17 BUT THERE'S ANOTHER TRUTH BEYOND THAT TRUTH
• 20:19 AND THAT IS THERE'S A SAVIOR WHO'S COMING
• 20:21 AND IN ADVANCE OF HIS COMING WHAT HE WANTS TO DO IS COME INTO YOUR WORLD NOW
• 20:25 AND HE CAN RESTORE IN AS MUCH AS I'M AROUND RUINS NOW HERE IN THE HOLY LAND.
• 20:31 THESE RUINS ARE PREDICTED TO REBOUND AT DAYS' END.
• 20:36 AND THAT'S NOT JUST A STORY FOR THE JEWS,
• 20:38 IT'S A STORY FOR "YOUS"
• 20:40 BECAUSE IT'S A STORY OF GOD WHO BRINGS FORGIVENESS TO BEAR ON PEOPLE THAT NEED IT,
• 20:44 PEOPLE LIKE ME AND YOU.
• 20:53 ♪(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)♪
• 21:41 IN THIS PROGRAM I'VE BEEN TELLING A TOUGH STORY, A STORY OF JUDGMENT.
• 21:45 BUT THERE IS RESTORATION COMING EZEKIEL SAYS.
• 21:48 SEEMS THAT WE'RE LIVING IN THAT RESTORATION RIGHT NOW.
• 21:51 WELL, AND WE SEE IT IN ISRAEL.
• 21:52 I MET WITH MOSHE KEMPINSKI AT THE WESTERN WALL.
• 21:55 WE TALKED ABOUT HIS RESTORATION, BRINGING HIS FAMILY FROM NORTH AMERICA TO ISRAEL.
• 21:59 AND THEY CAME AND THEY STILL HAD A HARD TIME.
• 22:03 THEY ARE STILL GOING THROUGH RESTORATION.
• 22:05 BUT HIS HOPE WAS THAT ISRAEL WOULD BE THE STATE.
• 22:09 HE SAW IT BECOME A STATE, HE LOVES ISRAEL, HE'S AN ORTHODOX JEWISH MAN,
• 22:13 LOVES US, LOVES THE TOURISTS,
• 22:15 HAS A WONDERFUL LITTLE SHOP IN JERUSALEM,
• 22:17 HERE'S MOSHE KEMPINSKI.
• 22:21 AS AN ORTHODOX JEW WE VERY MUCH BELIEVE
• 22:23 THAT GOD IS WRITING THE LAST CHAPTERS OF THE BIBLE
• 22:26 AS WE SIT HERE.
• 22:27 SO THAT MEANS THAT THE SCROLL'S OPEN,
• 22:30 THE QUILL IS IN HAND
• 22:32 AND YOU AND I, EVERYBODY IN THIS LAND
• 22:36 HAS THE OPPORTUNITY, THE OBLIGATION, MAYBE THE PRIVILEGE,
• 22:38 TO BE THE INK IN THE WORDS
• 22:40 THAT GOD IS USING TO WRITE THAT LAST CHAPTER.
• 22:42 THAT'S WHAT CHANGED EVERYTHING WHEN ZECHARIAH HAD A VISION
• 22:44 HE SAID THAT HE SAW CHILDREN PLAYING IN THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM
• 22:47 AND I LOOKED AT MY CHILDREN AND I REALIZED
• 22:49 THAT'S PROBABLY WHO HE SAW.
• 22:50 THAT BLEW ME AWAY.
• 22:52 RIGHT, I SEE THE CHILDREN PLAYING EVERYWHERE IN THE OLD CITY.
• 22:55 AND YOU'RE SEEING THE SAME CHILDREN THAT ZECHARIAH SAW.
• 22:57 MEANING YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE FACES OF THAT VISION,
• 23:00 YOU'RE WATCHING THE VISION BEFORE YOUR EYES.
• 23:01 OKAY, FUTURE OF ISRAEL,
• 23:03 WHERE DO YOU SEE IT GOING?
• 23:04 AWESOME!
• 23:05 AWESOME! GOOD.
• 23:06 AWESOME BUT THE ROAD IS LONG
• 23:09 AND THE ROAD IS PAINFUL
• 23:10 AND THE ROAD IS CIRCUITOUS
• 23:12 AND THE ROAD...
• 23:13 REMEMBER WE VERY MUCH BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS MADE US PARTNERS
• 23:16 AND HOW THIS ROAD WILL GO EITHER WAY.
• 23:19 WE BELIEVE THAT WE'RE HEADED INTO DIFFICULT TIMES
• 23:23 BUT THERE'S A SONG THAT WAS SUNG BY THE YOUNG PEOPLE..
• 23:25 AND I WAS THERE AS WELL TRYING TO GET INTO GUSH KATIF AND EVERYTHING ELSE...
• 23:30 THAT HAD BECOME ALMOST A HYMN.
• 23:32 AND THE SONG TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH IS
• 23:35 THE ETERNAL PEOPLE HAVE NO FEAR OF THE LONG VOYAGE.
• 23:39 IF YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS A PURPOSE
• 23:41 AND YOU KNOW THERE IS A DESTINY
• 23:43 AND YOU KNOW THAT GOD IS LEADING IT,
• 23:45 IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THE VOYAGE IS LONG
• 23:47 AS LONG AS YOU KNOW THAT THAT DESTINY IS TRUE.
• 23:49 WELL, GOD IS ALWAYS AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. >>RIGHT
• 23:52 WHATEVER THAT TUNNEL IS
• 23:53 GOD IS ALWAYS AT THE END OF THAT TUNNEL.
• 23:54 AND NOT ONLY IS HE AT THE END, THAT'S THE BEAUTY,
• 23:57 HE'S WALKING WITH YOU. >>YES
• 23:58 BUT THE THING THAT GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM,
• 24:00 WHICH IS DIFFERENT THEN THAT HE SAID TO...
• 24:02 ADAM WALKED WITH GOD, SETH WALKED WITH GOD, ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD...
• 24:05 ABRAHAM WAS THE ONLY ONE HE SAID,
• 24:06 "I WANT YOU TO WALK BEFORE ME."
• 24:07 "HAVE ENOUGH FAITH IN ME TO WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN"
• 24:11 "KNOWING THAT I'M BEHIND YOU."
• 24:13 WALKING THIS LONG VOYAGE IS WITH THE COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE,
• 24:15 I AS AN ORTHODOX JEW AM WALKING WITH HIM EVERY SINGLE DAY...
• 24:18 I SENSE GOD BEHIND ME AT ALL TIMES.
• 24:21 AT EVERYTHING THAT I DO,
• 24:22 IN EVERY DIFFICULT JUNCTURE I HAVE TO FACE
• 24:25 I KNOW THAT GOD IS BEHIND ME
• 24:26 AND THEREFORE I AM READY TO WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN
• 24:28 JUST LIKE ABRAHAM DID,
• 24:29 JUST LIKE RUTH DID,
• 24:31 JUST LIKE REBECCA DID,
• 24:32 JUST LIKE THE JEWISH PEOPLE DID.
• 24:33 JUST LIKE ME AS A BELIEVER. >>JUST LIKE YOU..
• 24:34 AS A BELIEVER I WALK WITH THE LORD EVERY SINGLE DAY. >>EXACTLY
• 24:37 THAT'S WHAT IS FINALLY BRINGING US TOGETHER,
• 24:39 WE BOTH KNOW THAT WE'RE WALKING WITH THE FAITH
• 24:42 THAT GOD HAS A VISION AND A DESTINY.
• 24:43 AND SUDDENLY WE'RE FINDING OURSELVES
• 24:45 CLOSER THAN WE EVER THOUGHT WAS POSSIBLE.
• 24:47 I AGREE AND I SEE THAT AND IT'S SO ENCOURAGING.
• 24:49 IT IS REALLY ENCOURAGING.
• 24:50 THANK YOU MOSHE, I APPRECIATE THAT.
• 24:52 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
• 24:55 AT THE BEGINNING OF EVERY PROGRAM IN THIS SERIES YOU SEE BONES, WRECKAGE, CARNAGE.
• 25:01 AND THE REASON WHY YOU SEE IT IS BECAUSE EZEKIEL SAW IT
• 25:05 AND WE WANT TO TELL HIS STORY, AND HIS STORY WE TELL.
• 25:09 THERE IS WRECKAGE BUT NOT JUST WRECKAGE, CORRECT?
• 25:12 THAT'S CORRECT.
• 25:12 EZEKIEL SPEAKS OF TRIALS
• 25:14 BUT HE ALSO SPEAKS OF TRIUMPHS
• 25:16 AND THAT'S WHAT'S ENCOURAGING FOR US.
• 25:18 I LOVE MOSHE'S STORY, THE COMING BACK,
• 25:21 THE RESTORATION OF HE AND HIS FAMILY.
• 25:23 IT'S A WONDERFUL STORY.
• 25:24 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL STORY.
• 25:27 EZEKIEL'S PICTURES OF WRECKAGE MAY WELL SPEAK TO YOU.
• 25:33 AND NOW I WANT TO SPEAK TO YOU.
• 25:35 IF YOU'RE AT A PLACE IN YOUR LIFE WHERE YOU FEEL LIKE A CORPSE,
• 25:40 HAVING BEEN THROWN OUT, JUST ROTTING AWAY IN THE SUN.
• 25:44 IT CAN HAPPEN IN LIFE.
• 25:45 ERRONEOUS SINS CAN DEVASTATE US;
• 25:48 WE CAN BE VICTIMIZED IN PART BY THIS SINS OF OTHERS.
• 25:52 FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER WE CAN FEEL BESTED BY LIFE, OVERRUN,
• 25:58 AND WE CAN RELATE TO EZEKIEL'S STORY OF THE BONES STREWN ABOUT.
• 26:04 WHAT I WANT YOU TO KNOW IS WHILE THAT IS HIS STORY
• 26:08 IT'S NOT JUST HIS STORY
• 26:10 FOR IN ADDITION TO THAT HE TELLS THE STORY OF THE BONES COMING BACK TO LIFE.
• 26:15 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 26:17 IT'S BECAUSE GOD IS IN THE BUSINESS OF MAKING ALL THINGS NEW.
• 26:21 HOW ABOUT YOU?
• 26:22 IF YOU'RE AT A PLACE IN YOUR LIFE WHERE YOU NEED A NEW LIFE
• 26:26 GOD MAKES THAT AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SENDING OF HIS SON
• 26:30 NOT ONLY INTO THE WORLD IN GENERAL BUT INTO YOUR WORLD IN PARTICULAR.
• 26:34 YOU JUST GOTTA ASK.
• 26:37 THAT'S RIGHT; GOD IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW.
• 26:40 WE CAN TRUST HIS WORD,
• 26:42 WE HAVE HIS WORD,
• 26:44 WE NEED TO TRUST HIS WORD.
• 26:46 STAY TUNED FOR NEXT WEEK, MORE PROPHECY, MORE BONES, MORE VISIONS,
• 26:50 STAY TUNED.
• 26:51 AND AS YOU GO, SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:54 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.