Caption transcript for Ezekiel and the MidEast ‘Piece’ Process: “Israel’s Neighbor States” (5/8)

• 00:03 WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT
• 00:09 THE LORD SAID UNTO EZEKIEL, "SON OF MAN, CAN THESE BONES LIVE?"
• 00:20 PROPHECY UPON THESE BONES AND SAY UNTO THEM, "OH YE DRY BONES, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD."
• 01:02 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:04 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY CO-HOST, SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:07 SHALOM AND WELCOME BACK
• 01:09 TO THE EZEKIEL SERIES.
• 01:10 WE ARE LOOKING AT JUDGMENT
• 01:12 AND GOD JUDGES THOSE NATIONS
• 01:14 THAT COME AGAINST ISRAEL.
• 01:16 YES WE SEE WHICH NATION'S BEING
• 01:19 THE OBJECT OF HIS JUDGMENT.
• 01:20 NOT ONLY IS ISRAEL JUDGED
• 01:22 BUT GOD JUDGES THOSE THAT REALLY DO COME AGAINST ISRAEL.
• 01:25 I'M SURE GOD DOESN'T LIKE PUTTING THE HANDCUFFS ON.
• 01:29 AS A POLICE OFFICER I'VE DONE THAT ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION.
• 01:32 AND I DON'T WANT TO SAY THAT GOD'S "JACKING UP" THE WORLD,
• 01:35 BUT IN THIS PROGRAM WE SEE THROUGH EZEKIEL
• 01:38 THAT THOSE HELL BENT ON ISRAEL'S DEMISE INCUR GOD'S WRATH.
• 01:44 IT'S A STORY IN THE ANCIENT WORD, IT'S A STORY IN THE MODERN WORLD
• 01:49 AND TO THAT STORY WE GO NOW AS WE CONTINUE WITH EZEKIEL AND THE MIDEAST PIECE PROCESS.
• 02:00 IN 586 B.C. THE LORD SPOKE UNTO EZEKIEL,
• 02:03 "SET THY FACE AGAINST PHARAOH AND PROPHECY AGAINST ALL EGYPT"
• 02:09 "SAY, "THUS SAYETH THE LORD GOD, BEHOLD I AM AGAINST THEE"
• 02:15 "ALL THE INHABITANTS OF EGYPT SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD"
• 02:19 "BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN A STAFF OF REED TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL"
• 02:22 "AND THE LAND OF EGYPT SHALL BE DESOLATE
• 02:25 AND WASTE IN THE MIDST OF THE COUNTRIES THAT ARE DESOLATE"
• 02:29 "NEITHER SHALL IT BE INHABITED 40 YEARS."
• 02:36 WE DIDN'T CREATE THIS PICTURE YOU'RE SEEING.
• 02:39 WE JUST WALKED INTO IT AND WHAT A SIGHT IT IS.
• 02:41 THE PROPHET EZEKIEL SAYS LIKE THIS TOWN HERE, THAT NATIONS STATES THAT BORDER ISRAEL
• 02:48 ARE GOING TO BE DEVASTATED.
• 02:50 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 02:52 BECAUSE THERE IS A JUDGMENT BROUGHT TO BEAR FOR THEIR SINS AGAINST GOD,
• 02:55 FOR THEIR SINS AGAINST ISRAEL.
• 02:57 AND THE LORD IS NOT A HAPPY CAMPER.
• 02:59 EIGHT CHAPTERS ARE INVESTED IN TELLING THAT STORY.
• 03:03 AND EZEKIEL'S NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO DOES IT.
• 03:06 ISAIAH HAS EIGHT CHAPTERS, JEREMIAH HAS SIX;
• 03:10 THERE'S 22 CHAPTERS THAT DESCRIBE WHAT WILL COME OF THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL
• 03:17 IN THE DAY WHEN GOD BRINGS HIS JUDGMENT TO BEAR.
• 03:20 IF YOU THINK OF THE NEW TESTAMENT THERE'S 4 GOSPELS,
• 03:22 THERE'S MORE TEXT TALKING ABOUT THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL
• 03:27 THAN 2 OF THE GOSPELS.
• 03:29 AND ITS EQUIVALENT TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
• 03:31 THERE'S A LOT AND I WANT TO EXAMINE IT WITH YOU AS WE CONSIDER THE STORY.
• 03:36 IF YOU'LL OPEN YOUR BIBLES PLEASE TO EZEKIEL, CHAPTER 25.
• 03:40 PICKING UP IN VERSE 1:
• 03:43 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:46 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME SAYING,
• 03:49 "BEN ADAM", "SON OF MAN"
• 03:52 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:56 "SET YOUR FACE TOWARD THE CHILDREN OF AMMON."
• 04:01 NOW HE'S GOING TO BEGIN WITH THE AMMONITES JUST TO THE EAST.
• 04:04 HE'S GOING TO THEN GO FROM THERE TO THE MOABITES GOING EAST OF THE JORDAN
• 04:12 BEGINNING WITH THE AMMONITES, THE MOABITES TO THE EDOMITES;
• 04:16 THEN HE'S GOING TO GO AROUND TO THE WEST TO PHILISTIA
• 04:21 WHERE THE MODERN GAZA AREA IS INTERESTINGLY.
• 04:25 HE'S GOING TO LOOP AROUND ISRAEL AND GO NORTH FURTHER INTO WHAT WOULD BE MODERN LEBANON
• 04:31 IN PROPHESYING AGAINST TYRE AND SIDON.
• 04:34 IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT THEN THEY'LL BE A LOT OF TEXT INVESTED AGAINST EGYPT.
• 04:41 WHAT A STORY!
• 04:42 HERE WE'RE JUST BEGINNING WHEN HE SAYS
• 04:44 "SON OF MAN, SET YOUR FACE TOWARD THE CHILDREN OF AMMON"
• 04:49 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 04:52 "AND PROPHECY AGAINST THEM"
• 04:55 AND WHAT'S THE WORD IN VERSE 3?
• 04:57 ALAS
• 05:04 BECAUSE YOU WERE HELL BENT ON THE PEOPLE AND THE RELIGION SO IT IS GOD'S NOT A HAPPY CAMPER.
• 05:09 HE'S GOING TO BRING HIS FORCE TO BEAR
• 05:11 AND THERE WILL BE A RECKONING.
• 05:12 IN VERSE 7 HE SAYS:
• 05:24 THEY MOLESTED GOD'S PEOPLE AND THE NET RESULT IS THEY'LL BE JUDGED ACCORDINGLY,
• 05:30 AND NOT JUST THEM.
• 05:31 WE MOVE ON TO VERSES 8 AND ON, WE LEAVE AMMON, WE GO TO MOAB PARTICULARLY.
• 05:39 AND HE SAYS:
• 05:43 THEY'LL BE OPENED UP AND DESTROYED IN VERSE 9.
• 05:46 IN VERSE 11 HE SAYS:
• 05:51 IN VERSE 12 THEN,
• 05:56 AND SO IT IS HE SAYS IN VERSE 13:
• 06:05 THERE IS A DAY OF RECKONING.
• 06:07 WHAT HAPPENS IS WHEN IS ISRAEL WAS RECONSTITUTED AS A NATIONSTATE
• 06:10 THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT TRIED TO PREVENT IT.
• 06:13 AND THEN UNABLE TO PREVENT IT THEN THEY MOBILIZED ENERGIES TO TRY AND DESTROY IT.
• 06:18 THERE WAS SUCCESSION OF WARS, BUT TO NO AVAIL, GOD GAVE ISRAEL VICTORY.
• 06:22 ABSENT BEING ABLE TO THEN TAKE TO THE FIELD WITH CONVENTIONAL ARMIES WE HAVE ALL THIS,
• 06:29 THE WAR IN THE PRESS AND TERRORISM
• 06:32 AND PEOPLE INVESTING THEIR ANGST AGAINST UNARMED CIVILIANS.
• 06:35 GOD IS NOT A HAPPY CAMPER.
• 06:37 AND WHAT HAPPENS IS ALL THIS COMES TO AN END.
• 06:39 SPEAKING OF COMING TO AN END, BEFORE I BRING THE SEGMENT TO AN END,
• 06:44 YOU'LL FIND IN VERSE 15 INTERESTINGLY WHERE HE SAYS:
• 06:54 HE SAYS:
• 07:00 NOW THOSE THAT OCCUPY PHILISTIA TODAY, WHAT WOULD BE GAZA,
• 07:04 THESE AREN'T THE ACTUAL PHILISTINES OF A BYGONE ERA.
• 07:07 ITS INTERESTING, HOWEVER, HOW THE PROPHET SEES TROUBLE ALL AROUND ISRAEL
• 07:11 AND THIS, STRANGE AS IT MIGHT SOUND, IS ALL PART OF EZEKIEL'S MIDDLE EAST PIECE PROCESS
• 07:18 AS HE LOOKS AT IT ONE PIECE OF JUDGMENT AT A TIME.
• 07:23 AND THE LORD SPOKE UNTO EZEKIEL REGARDING THE FORTHCOMING JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM.
• 07:31 "UTTER A PARABLE UNTO THE REBELLIOUS HOUSE"
• 07:35 "GATHER THE GOOD PIECES OF MEAT AND FILL THE POT WITH THE CHOICE BONES AND MAKE IT BOIL WELL."
• 07:47 RARELY DO MY EYES ALIGHT UPON SUCH NOTHINGNESS, SUCH BARRENNESS.
• 07:53 YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE ME, BUT THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
• 07:56 ONE DAY THIS PART OF THE WORLD WILL BECOME LIKE EDEN.
• 08:01 IT'LL BE LUSH, VERDANT, A PLACE OF LIFE.
• 08:05 WELL THAT BELONGS TO DAYS FORWARD, NOT THE PRESENT.
• 08:10 SO MUCH FOR THE GOOD IN THIS STORY, THERE'S DIFFERENT WORD PICTURES THAT EZEKIEL PAINTS.
• 08:16 IN THE 24TH CHAPTER HE SEES A CALDRON AND HE SEES PIECES BEING PUT INTO THE CALDRON.
• 08:23 AND WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THAT?
• 08:25 HE SEES GOD'S WRATH COOKING AND HE SEES PEOPLE AS BEING PART OF THE STEW, A PERSON HERE,
• 08:33 A PERSON THERE ARE THROWN INTO THAT AS HIS CUP OVERFLOWS, HIS CUP OF WRATH EVIDENCED BY THAT.
• 08:42 IN THIS SEGMENT WE'RE LOOKING AT GOD'S JUDGMENT
• 08:46 THAT'S BROUGHT TO BEAR ON THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 08:50 HIS JUDGMENT WAS BROUGHT TO BEAR BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T CARE.
• 08:54 THEY DIDN'T CARE TO SHARE, THEY WERE GREEDY, THEY WERE AVARICIOUS.
• 08:57 AND WHAT HAPPENS IS GOD HAD A DAY IN COURT.
• 09:00 WE'VE LOOKED BRIEFLY AT AMMON.
• 09:03 WE'VE CONSIDERED AS WELL MOAB, EDOM AND BRIEFLY MADE MENTION OF PHILISTIA
• 09:09 WHERE THE GAZA STRIP IS TODAY.
• 09:11 WELL OUR PROPHET CONTINUES TO GO AROUND ISRAEL AND HE CONSIDERS TYRE.
• 09:19 IN CHAPTER 26, VERSE 27 AND 28 THERE IS A FASCINATING STORY.
• 09:25 A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF TEXT IS DEDICATED TO TELLING THE STORY OF JUDGMENT
• 09:33 THAT WILL BEFALL THAT PART OF THE WORLD WHERE WE HAVE LEBANON TODAY.
• 09:37 IT'S A FASCINATING STORY NOT JUST BECAUSE JUDGMENT IS BROUGHT TO BEAR
• 09:42 BUT THAT IN THE PROCESS OF DISCUSSING THE JUDGMENT
• 09:46 THE LORD ALIGHTS UPON A FIGURE OF THE DEVIL, FOR MY MONEY UNDERSCORING THE DEMONIC
• 09:55 THAT SEEMS TO INFORM AND INFLAME THE WORLD AROUND THIS PART OF THE WORLD.
• 10:03 WELL SO MUCH FOR TALKING ABOUT THE TEXT.
• 10:05 HERE I WANT YOU TO HEAR IT IF YOU'D OPEN UP TO CHAPTER 28, VERSE 1 IN EZEKIEL
• 10:11 AS WE CONSIDER EZEKIEL AND THE MIDEAST PIECE PROCESS.
• 10:15 JUDGMENT BROUGHT TO BEAR HERE IS ONE OF THE PIECES TO THE PUZZLE.
• 10:20 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:24 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME SAYING, "SON OF MAN."
• 10:29 SPEAKING TO THE PRINCE OF TYRE HE SAYS:
• 10:45 YOU MIGHT RECALL RAV SHAOUL, THE APOSTLE PAUL, SAYING AS MUCH OF THE ANTI-MESSIAH
• 10:51 THAT HE PROCLAIMS THAT HE'S GOD AND HE TAKES HIS SEAT IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD.
• 10:55 WELL ACCORDING TO EZEKIEL,
• 10:57 NEVER MIND THIS PERSON TAKING HIS SEAT IN A RE-MANUFACTURED HOUSE OF GOD,
• 11:04 THIS PERSONALITY GOES BACK TO EDEN WHERE IT ALL RAN AWRY
• 11:09 AND THIS IS WHERE WE GET THE STORY OF THE DEVIL ONCE A COVERING ANGEL
• 11:15 WHO'S CAST OUT OF PARADISE.
• 11:17 THAT'S NOT JUST FANCIFUL PREACHING, ITS IN THE TEXT.
• 11:21 WELL, HE GOES ON IN VERSE 12 TO DESCRIBE THIS PERSONALITY,
• 11:27 THIS KING OF TYRE WHO THINKS HE'S PERFECT.
• 11:29 IN VERSE 13 EZEKIEL SAYS:
• 11:38 THIS MADE MAN, THIS PERSONALITY THAT HAD EVERYTHING,
• 11:41 THIS PERSON WHO WAS BEAUTIFUL BUT THEN HE WAS CORRUPTED BECAUSE OF HIS BEAUTY,
• 11:47 BECAUSE OF HIS SPLENDOR AND WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 16:
• 11:53 AND IN VERSE 17 THE WORD IS:
• 12:02 THERE AMIDST THESE GLISTENING JEWELS, THIS PERSONALITY COMES TO AN INGLORIOUS END.
• 12:08 NOW THIS IS PART OF GOD'S WEIGHING IN AGAINST THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL
• 12:14 BUT ITS NOT JUST THAT FOR HERE IN THE TEXT EVIL IS DESCRIBED, PERSONIFIED AS DEMONIC.
• 12:26 THE EVIL THAT GOES BACK TO THE VERY BEGINNING OF TIME
• 12:31 IT SEEMS IS GOING TO RE-MANIFEST AT THE EDGE OF TIME.
• 12:34 AND THIS IS PART OF THE BIBLE STORY AND ITS PART OF EZEKIEL AND THE MIDEAST PIECE PROCESS.
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• 13:26 MY FATHER'S COME 5 TIMES BEFORE
• 13:28 AND LOVES ISRAEL.
• 13:29 AND THIS IS MY 1ST TIME AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW,
• 13:34 BEYOND WORDS THE MEANING OF COMING HOME.
• 13:37 IT'S BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION
• 13:40 AND I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THIS,
• 13:43 I NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE LIKE THIS.
• 13:45 AND THE EXPERIENCE HAS TO BE HAD IN PERSON.
• 13:50 ISRAEL IS A LAND OF MANY CONTRASTS,
• 13:53 DESTRUCTION AND BEAUTY.
• 13:55 WE SEE THE RUINS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO BUT WE ALSO SEE THE BEAUTY THAT IS TODAY.
• 14:01 I KNOW THAT JEFF AND I WOULD LOVE TO SHOW YOU ISRAEL.
• 14:05 YES THERE'S SO MUCH WE WANT TO SHOW YOU.
• 14:07 NOT EVERYONE CAN GO TO ISRAEL WITH US
• 14:09 AND 30 MINUTES ON A TELEVISION PROGRAM
• 14:12 JUST DOESN'T SEEM ENOUGH AT ONE LEVEL.
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• 14:30 WE CAN COME YOUR WAY WITH NEWS INCLUDING PAST PROGRAMS,
• 14:35 INCLUDING UP TO DATE ARTICLES SOME OF WHICH
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• 14:46 BUT OF COURSE THIS IS LIMITED TOO WITH JUST 30 SOME PAGES.
• 14:49 WE HAVE ARCHIVED MANY ARTICLES ON LEVITT.COM.
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• 15:00 IF YOU WANT YOUR WORLD LIT UP, LET IT BE LIT BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• 15:06 AS YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD, AS YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORD,
• 15:10 WHICH REMINDS ME, IN THIS SERIES THE PROGRAM OFFER IS
• 15:15 "DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH."
• 15:19 ITS ANOTHER STORY FROM ANOTHER PROPHET.
• 15:22 AND NOW OFF TO THE PROPHET EZEKIEL WE GO AS WE CONSIDER OUR JOURNEY INTO THE ANCIENT WORD.
• 15:31 THE LORD SPOKE UNTO EZEKIEL AND TOLD HIM TO MARK TWO ROADS FOR THE APPROACHING KING OF BABYLON.
• 15:38 ONE OF THE ROAD SIGNS WOULD POINT TO AMMON, THE OTHER TO JERUSALEM.
• 15:43 NEBUCHADNEZZAR WOULD IN FACT CHOOSE TO MARCH AGAINST JERUSALEM
• 15:47 AND GOD WOULD CONDONE IT AS JUDGMENT AGAINST JERUSALEM'S TRANSGRESSIONS.
• 15:52 IN TIME, HOWEVER, GOD'S WRATH WOULD ALSO BE TURNED TOWARDS AMMON.
• 16:02 IN ANOTHER LIFE AS A POLICE OFFICER I HAD AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO STAND IN AN INTERSECTION
• 16:06 AND DECIDE WHO GOES AND DECIDE WHO COMES AND I'D TELL PEOPLE "HURRY UP AND MAKE THAT TURN!"
• 16:12 WELL IN CHAPTER 21 OF EZEKIEL THE PROPHETS SEES HIMSELF,
• 16:16 OR HE SEES AN INTERSECTION WHERE SOMEONE HAS TO DECIDE WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO GO
• 16:21 BUT IN THAT CASE WHEREVER THEY GO WHAT'S ON THE MENU IS TO GO
• 16:25 AND TO RAPE, TO KILL AND TO PLUNDER.
• 16:28 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 16:29 BECAUSE THE ENGINES OF WAR ARE TURNED ON.
• 16:33 GOD'S JUDGMENT IS BROUGHT TO BEAR AGAINST ISRAEL BECAUSE OF ISRAEL'S SINS.
• 16:37 GOD'S JUDGMENT IS BROUGHT TO BEAR AGAINST THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 16:42 GOD IS SHOWING HIMSELF TOUGH.
• 16:45 WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT EZEKIEL ISN'T JUST THAT GOD SHOWS HIMSELF TOUGH
• 16:49 BUT THE RESTORATION MOTIF, BUT I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF A LITTLE HERE.
• 16:53 I WANT YOU TO LOOK IN CHAPTER 29 OF EZEKIEL WITH ME.
• 16:56 WE'RE LOOKING IN VERSE 2, BUT GOING UP TO IT.
• 17:01 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 17:04 THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME SAYING,
• 17:06 "BEN ADAM,"
• 17:08 "SON OF MAN"
• 17:10 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 17:14 SET YOUR FACE AGAINST PHARAOH, KING OF EGYPT
• 17:18 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 17:22 AND PROPHECY AGAINST HIM
• 17:24 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 17:26 AND AGAINST ALL EGYPT AND SAY,
• 17:29 "THUS SAYETH THE LORD"
• 17:32 WHAT DOES HE SAY?
• 17:33 HE SAYS WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR.
• 17:35 HE SAYS, QUOTE IN VERSE 3,
• 17:40 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 17:43 "I AM AGAINST THEE PHARAOH, KING OF EGYPT"
• 17:47 AND HE SAYS IN VERSE 4:
• 17:53 WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THAT?
• 17:55 HE COMPARES HIM IN VERSE 3 TO
• 17:59 HERE IN THE JEWISH TRANSLATION,
• 18:01 BETTER, A CROCODILE.
• 18:03 THERE'S A CROC IN THE NILE AND WHAT HAPPENS, THE LORD SAYS I'M GOING COME AND GRAB YOU,
• 18:07 PUT A HOOK IN YOU AND BRING YOU UP, TAKE YOU TO THE BANKS AND THROW YOU UPON THE DRY GROUND.
• 18:13 THIS IS IMAGERY HERE OF EGYPT TAKING A HIT.
• 18:19 WHAT'S INTERESTING IN EZEKIEL ALL THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL TAKE A HIT.
• 18:25 THEY INVOKE GOD'S IRE AND THEY'RE JUDGED BECAUSE OF IT.
• 18:29 WHY?
• 18:31 BECAUSE THEY'RE HELL BENT ON MOLESTING ISRAEL AND THERE IS A DAY OF RECKONING,
• 18:35 THERE IS A DAY IN COURT.
• 18:37 GOD SAYS HE'S GOING TO SHOW HIMSELF STRONG ON BEHALF OF HIS PEOPLE AT DAYS END.
• 18:43 TO QUOTE THEN IN VERSE 6,
• 18:45 WHY DOES HE DO IT?
• 18:46 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 18:58 I FIND IT FASCINATING PERSONALLY, SOME 90 TIMES IN EZEKIEL
• 19:03 GOD WHO'S SHOWING HIMSELF TOUGH DOES SO IN ORDER THAT THE WORLD MIGHT KNOW HIM.
• 19:12 WHILE GOD SHOWS HIMSELF TOUGH THE MIRACLE ISN'T AS MUCH IN THE TOUGHNESS
• 19:17 AS MUCH AS IT IS IN THE WAY THAT GOD SHOWS HIMSELF GRACIOUS
• 19:23 IN THE WAKE OF THE GREAT CONFLAGRATION.
• 19:27 WHEN ONE LOOKS AT EZEKIEL AND THE MIDEAST PIECE PROCESS
• 19:31 WE SEE THAT FOR EZEKIEL THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE, WHEN THEY LINE UP HE SEES WAR.
• 19:37 IT HAD APPLICATIONS IN ANTIQUITY, IT HAS APPLICATIONS IN MODERNITY AS WELL.
• 19:44 IT SEEMS THAT TENSIONS IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD REVOLVING AROUND ISRAEL
• 19:48 PLAY THEMSELVES OUT "DOR LA DOR", FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
• 19:53 AND NOT JUST IN THE EZEKIEL TEXT IN A BYGONE ERA.
• 19:57 IF ONE LOOKS AT THE JOHANNINE REVELATION WRITTEN BY JOHN.
• 20:02 JOHN THE REVELATOR ENVISIONS THAT AT DAYS END THERE'S A CLIMACTIC WAR
• 20:07 AND IT CULMINATES WITH A COMPARABLE IMAGE.
• 20:10 HE SEES HERE THE DEVIL AS A SERPENT, A SCALED CREATURE
• 20:14 AND THE LORD TAKES IT BY THE THROAT AND DRAGS IT AND THROWS IT IN THE PIT.
• 20:18 FINISHED!
• 20:20 AND THEN THERE'S A CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES.
• 20:23 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 20:27 THERE'S THE SEASON THEN WHEN NATION WILL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION,
• 20:31 NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANYMORE.
• 20:35 WELL, WHEN WE LOOK AT EZEKIEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST PIECE PROCESS,
• 20:41 THE STEPS TOWARD THE LASTING PEACE
• 20:43 ENTAIL DISEQUILIBRIUM AS THE ENGINES OF WAR ARE TURNED UP.
• 20:49 SO MUCH FOR THE BAD NEWS.
• 20:51 AS WE FOLLOW THIS SERIES WE'LL CONSIDER THE GOOD NEWS
• 20:55 AS GOD REJUVENATES A WORLD THAT'S DEVASTATED
• 20:59 BY SOCIAL UNREST, POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND WAR.
• 21:11 (INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
• 21:52 SOCIAL UNREST, POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND WAR,
• 21:57 EZEKIEL SPOKE ABOUT IT IN HIS DAY
• 21:59 AND OTHERS ARE SPEAKING ABOUT IT IN OUR OWN.
• 22:03 VERY GOOD.
• 22:04 I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND AMERICA'S TRUTH FORUM,
• 22:07 IT WAS A TERRORISM SYMPOSIUM.
• 22:09 WE TALKED TO SEVERAL PEOPLE.
• 22:11 I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY HEAR PEOPLE
• 22:14 THAT IDENTIFY WHO THE TERRORISTS ARE.
• 22:17 I ESPECIALLY ENJOYED TALKING TO A MAN
• 22:20 BY THE NAME OF FRANK SALVATO
• 22:22 AND I ASKED HIM,
• 22:23 WHAT NATION DID HE FEAR THE MOST?
• 22:25 THE ANSWER WAS NOT SURPRISING BUT THE INFORMATION HE HAD WAS JUST REALLY TERRIFIC.
• 22:31 HERE IS FRANK SALVATO.
• 22:34 IRAN COMES INTO MIND
• 22:36 BECAUSE IT IS AT THIS POINT BEING CONTROLLED BY RADICAL FACTIONS.
• 22:39 THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT THE 12TH IMAM, THE MAHDI WENT DOWN THE WELL,
• 22:45 AND IT'S SUPPOSED TO COME BACK.
• 22:46 AND MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD IS PAVING NEW PATHWAYS TO THIS WEALTH
• 22:50 OF THE GREAT COMING BACK AND THE LIKE.
• 22:54 THEY'RE A THREAT AND THEY'RE DANGEROUS
• 22:57 BECAUSE THEY'RE MARCHING TOWARDS THE NUCLEAR WEAPON.
• 23:01 DO YOU SEE THEM GOING TO ISRAEL WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
• 23:04 I DO.
• 23:05 REALLY, TRULY?
• 23:06 ABSOLUTELY.
• 23:08 I SEE THEM ACTUALLY LASHING OUT AGAINST ISRAEL WITH THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, CERTAINLY.
• 23:12 BY THEMSELVES?
• 23:13 DO THEY HAVE HELP FROM SOMEBODY ELSE OR OTHER COUNTRIES?
• 23:16 WHEN WE LOOK AT IRAN WE LOOK AT THEIR VERY CLOSE RELATIONSHIP NOT ONLY WITH SYRIA
• 23:22 BUT WITH SOME TERRORIST FACTIONS IN THE REGION.
• 23:24 INTERESTINGLY THEY HAPPEN TO BE SHIITE BUT THEY'RE ALSO HELPING HAMAS
• 23:28 WHICH HAPPENS TO BE SUNNI SO YOU SEE RADICAL
• 23:31 ELEMENTS FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE ISLAMIC AISLE COMING TOGETHER
• 23:35 TO LASH OUT AGAINST ISRAEL AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION AS WE SEE IT.
• 23:42 WELL, WHERE DO THEY GET THEIR MONEY?
• 23:44 WHERE DOES THIS MONEY COME FROM?
• 23:45 WHERE DOES THEIR HELP COME FROM?
• 23:47 THEY GET THEIR MONEY, IT'S PARTIALLY FROM OIL,
• 23:50 ITS PARTIALLY FROM THE RELATIONSHIPS THEY HAVE WITH OTHER COUNTRIES
• 23:55 AROUND THE WORLD.
• 23:56 WE LIVE IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY NOW. RIGHT
• 23:58 AND YOU LOOK AT COUNTRIES LIKE CHINA AND RUSSIA AND YOU SEE THE DEALS THEY ARE DOING.
• 24:02 WE JUST SAW RUSSIA DELIVER NUCLEAR FUEL TO THEM UNDER THE GUISE OF...
• 24:07 "YOU KNOW THIS WAY YOU WON'T HAVE TO MAKE IT YOURSELF"
• 24:10 WELL ITS STILL A BUSINESS TRANSACTION. RIGHT
• 24:11 SO WE'RE LOOKING AT MONEY COMING THROUGH THE GLOBAL ECONOMY INTO IRAN
• 24:15 EVEN THOUGH WE'VE GOT SANCTIONS IN PLACE THERE'S STILL PLACES THAT DO BUSINESS WITH THEM
• 24:19 SO THEY'RE NOT GOING TO HURT FOR IT.
• 24:23 YOU KNOW ITS REALLY EXCEEDINGLY IRONIC IN LIGHT OF THE FACT
• 24:26 THAT THE RUSSIANS ARE FACING IRANIAN BASED,
• 24:30 IRANIAN FINANCED JIHADISTS IN CHECHNYA.
• 24:33 RIGHT
• 24:35 BUT THEY DON'T SEEM TO REALIZE THAT THEY ARE IN A CERTAIN SENSE
• 24:38 HELPING FINANCE THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION BY AIDING THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM.
• 24:44 FROM THE INFORMATION THAT I'VE HAD AND THAT'S BEEN SHARED WITH ME FOR 4 OR 5 YEARS,
• 24:46 THE IRANIANS PROBABLY POSSESS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 2 AND 9 NUCLEAR WEAPONS AT THIS POINT.
• 24:52 AIMED AT?
• 24:53 AIMED AT ISRAEL AND PROBABLY POTENTIALLY THE UNITED STATES.
• 24:57 THE IRANIANS FUNDED A.Q. KHAN LABORATORIES, A.Q. KHAN WAS NOTHING BUT AT METALLURGIST.
• 25:05 BUT HE DID, HE IS THE FATHER OF THE BOMB, THEIR BOMB.
• 25:12 AND IN RETURN FOR THE INVESTMENT YOU COULD REST ASSURED
• 25:16 THAT THEY WERE PROVIDED WITH MATERIALS, TECHNOLOGY AND WEAPONRY.
• 25:21 HAVING CONSIDERED WHAT SOME EXPERTS ARE SAYING ABOUT TERRORISM TODAY
• 25:27 AND HAVING CONSIDERED WHAT EZEKIEL SAID YESTERDAY
• 25:31 ABOUT GOD'S JUDGMENT BEING BROUGHT TO BEAR AGAINST NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL
• 25:37 GIVEN THE WAY THEY ARE MOLESTING THAT NATIONSTATE,
• 25:40 I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO SHARE THAT PERSONALLY IN MY HEART OF HEARTS
• 25:44 I BEAR NO ANIMUS AGAINST ARAB PEOPLES.
• 25:48 PERSONALLY I DON'T LIKE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND MY POLICE OFFICER HEART,
• 25:55 A GRADUATE OF THE POLICE ACADEMY, I'VE ARRESTED MORE THAN ONE CRIMINAL IN A POLICE CAREER.
• 26:01 THE HEART WITHIN ME THAT CRIES "JUSTICE" WANTS TO SEE PERPETRATORS BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
• 26:08 AND WHEN I LOOK AT THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT
• 26:10 I SEE THAT THOSE BENT ON INJUSTICES AGAINST ISRAEL
• 26:14 ARE BROUGHT TO BEAR AND THAT'S THE POINT.
• 26:16 AND THAT IS THE POINT.
• 26:17 ITS NOT THAT PEOPLE ARE WHO THEY ARE
• 26:20 IT IS THAT THERE ARE TERRORISTS
• 26:22 AND TERRORISM IN OUR WORLD.
• 26:24 YOU CAN CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT TO CALL IT.
• 26:26 WE ARE REALLY AGAINST THE TERRORISTS.
• 26:28 SO ITS NOT THAT WE'RE AGAINST MUSLIMS,
• 26:30 WE ARE JUST AGAINST THE TERRORISM.
• 26:32 THERE'S ROOM IN MY WORLD FOR PEOPLE
• 26:34 TO PRACTICE DIFFERENT RELIGIONS. RIGHT.
• 26:35 I JUST WANT JUSTICE PRINCIPALLY. AMEN, AMEN.
• 26:37 NEXT WEEK
• 26:38 WE'RE LOOKING AT THE DRY BONES VISION.
• 26:40 JOIN US FOR THAT, TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT IT, THE TERRIFIC PROGRAM NEXT WEEK.
• 26:45 PLEASE JOIN US.
• 26:46 AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:47 SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 26:49 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM