Caption transcript for Ezekiel and the MidEast ‘Piece’ Process: “The Valley of the Dry Bones” (6/8)

• 00:03 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,
• 00:24 "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 AND ASSOCIATE,
• 01:06 SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:08 SHALOM
• 01:08 AND WELCOME TO EZEKIEL 37.
• 01:11 THIS IS THE DRY BONES VISION
• 01:13 AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS, STAY TUNED,
• 01:16 BECAUSE IT IS A WONDERFUL VISUAL.
• 01:18 GOD ASKED EZEKIEL IN CHAPTER 37,
• 01:21 "DO YOU THINK I CAN MAKE THESE BONES LIVE?"
• 01:24 AND JEFF, EZEKIEL SAYS,
• 01:27 "YES LORD, YOU CAN DO IT."
• 01:28 YES HE DOES.
• 01:30 IT'S ONE OF THE WEIRDEST STORIES IN THE BIBLE,
• 01:31 BUT IT'S THERE, WE WANT TO EXPOSE YOU TO IT.
• 01:33 BONES STREWN ABOUT A VALLEY
• 01:36 AND GOD SAYS, "I'M GOING TO BRING IT ALL TO LIFE."
• 01:38 IT'S A PICTURE OF WHAT GOD IS GOING TO DO FOR THE JEWS IN THE LAST DAYS,
• 01:41 THE REGATHERING, THE RECONSTITUTION OF THE NATION STATE,
• 01:44 WE'RE LIVING IN THOSE DAYS.
• 01:46 WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THE DAYS WE LIVE IN,
• 01:48 WE WANT YOU TO KNOW GOD'S WAYS.
• 01:51 AND IT'S FOR THAT REASON WE'RE PRESENTING THIS SERIES ON EZEKIEL.
• 01:54 AND NOW ON WE GO TO ONE OF THE MOST FASCINATING STORIES IN THE BIBLE,
• 01:58 AS WE CONSIDER EZEKIEL AND THE MIDEAST PIECE PROCESS.
• 02:31 "SON OF MAN, CAN THESE BONES LIVE?"
• 02:35 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 02:40 PROPHECY OVER THESE BONES AND SAY,
• 02:46 "OH YOU DRY BONES, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD."
• 03:08 SAY TO THE BONES,
• 03:11 "I WILL PUT SINEWS AND FLESH UPON YOU AND COVER YOU IN SPIRIT."
• 03:15 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:24 "PROPHECY ONTO THE SPIRIT, SON OF MAN."
• 03:29 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 03:44 "I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT IN YOU AND YOU WILL LIVE AND I WILL PLACE YOU IN YOUR OWN LAND,"
• 03:50 "THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT I THE LORD HAVE SPOKEN AND PERFORMED IT."
• 04:01 HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE "NEVI'IM", THE PROPHETS,
• 04:05 BUT HE WAS MORE THAN JUST A PROPHET.
• 04:08 HE WAS A "ROEH", A SEER, A VISIONARY,
• 04:11 BUT HE WAS MORE THAN JUST A SEER.
• 04:13 EZEKIEL WAS A MEMBER OF THE "KOHANIM", HE WAS A PRIEST,
• 04:17 AND FOR THAT REASON HE MUST HAVE BEEN SHOCKED WHEN HE WAS SET DOWN IN A PLACE LIKE THIS.
• 04:25 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 04:27 BECAUSE A PRIEST WOULD NEVER FREQUENT A PLACE LIKE THIS,
• 04:33 BUT GOD BROUGHT HIM HERE.
• 04:36 AND HE SHOCKED HIM IN BRINGING HIM HERE IN A VISION,
• 04:40 BUT HE DIDN'T JUST BRING HIM HERE TO SHOCK HIM,
• 04:44 HE BROUGHT HIM HERE TO TELL THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD.
• 04:50 IT'S A STORY ABOUT ISRAEL COMING BACK TO LIFE.
• 04:55 ISRAEL, THAT FOR HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS WAS FORCED TO WANDER;
• 05:02 ISRAEL, A PEOPLE;
• 05:05 ISRAEL, A STATE WIPED OFF THE EARTH WOULD COME BACK TO ENJOY HER FORMER ESTATE.
• 05:12 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 05:14 BECAUSE GOD WOULD BRING BACK THE DISPIRITED EXILES.
• 05:18 THOSE VANQUISHED FROM THE HOMELAND FOR CENTURIES, WOULD BEGIN TO MAKE THEIR WAY BACK.
• 05:24 OH, I LOVE THIS STORY.
• 05:27 "SEIF" IS A GERMAN NAME.
• 05:31 MY MOTHER WAS SMUGGLED OUT OF NAZZI GERMANY,
• 05:33 MY FATHER WHO WAS GERMAN JEWISH CAME OVER JUST BEFORE THE WAR.
• 05:39 MY MOTHER WAS SMUGGLED OUT OF NAZZI GERMANY
• 05:42 AND WE USE TO SAY WE COULD TAKE MOM OUT OF GERMANY,
• 05:44 BUT WE COULDN'T TAKE GERMANY OUT OF MOM.
• 05:47 SHE DIED IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL SOME YEARS AGO.
• 05:51 MOM HAD A HOPE SICKNESS.
• 05:54 AND HERE EZEKIEL HAS A WORD TO MILLIONS THAT HAVE A HOPE SICKNESS.
• 06:01 IT'S A WORD OF RESTORATION.
• 06:03 WE'RE TOLD IN CHAPTER 37, VERSE 1:
• 06:07 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 06:11 "AND THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS UPON ME.
• 06:14 AND THE LORD CARRIED ME IN THE SPIRIT, SAYS OUR PROPHET,
• 06:19 AND BROUGHT ME DOWN TO A PLACE LIKE THIS.
• 06:24 "HE DIDN'T BRING HIM HERE TO SHOCK HIM AS I SAID, HE BROUGHT HIM HERE TO BLESS HIM
• 06:29 AND TELL THE STORY OF HOW THESE BONES WOULD COME TOGETHER,
• 06:34 BONE UPON BONE.
• 06:36 AND THEN AFTER THE RIFFLING OF THE BONES, FLESH WOULD COME UPON.
• 06:41 AND WITH THE FLESH, SKIN
• 06:43 AND WITH THE SKIN, BREATH
• 06:46 AND WITH THE BREATH, LIFE.
• 06:51 AND WE'RE TOLD HERE THAT THESE BONES, IN VERSE 11, ARE THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
• 07:09 INTERESTINGLY THE NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR THE MODERN NATIONSTATE OF ISRAEL
• 07:17 IS A SONG CALLED HATIKVAH WHICH MEANS "THE HOPE."
• 07:24 WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SONG.
• 07:26 IT'S A SONG THAT EVOLVES OUT OF THIS STORY AND IT SHOWS SOME CONNECTIVENESS
• 07:32 AS DECADES AGO THE LORD STARTED BRINGING JEWISH PEOPLE BACK TO THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.
• 07:38 AND WITH THE REVIVAL OF LIFE IN ISRAEL, IS THE REVIVAL OF HOPE.
• 07:44 FRIENDS IT'S A MODERN STORY, BUT IT'S NOT JUST A MODERN STORY.
• 07:50 IT'S A STORY THAT WAS PRESAGED IN THE ANCIENT WORD.
• 07:55 AND THIS GETS US TO THE STORY FOR TODAY.
• 07:59 EZEKIEL ENVISIONS IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS AT DAYS' END,
• 08:04 THAT ISRAEL IS RECONSTITUTED AS A NATION STATE, BROUGHT TO LIFE.
• 08:10 AND OH, WHAT A LIFE IT IS AND OH HOW ALIVE IT IS!
• 08:16 AS IT SEEMS THE LORD HAS BROUGHT BACK DESPAIRING PERSONS
• 08:20 AND HE'S BROUGHT PEOPLE BACK TO ISRAEL,
• 08:23 THE LAND OF ISRAEL, THE LAND OF HOPE, THE LAND OF PROMISE.
• 08:29 AND IN SO DOING HE FULFILLED THE PROMISE THAT WAS TOLD MANY YEARS AGO,
• 08:34 WHEN EZEKIEL WAS PREDICTING WHAT GOD WOULD DO TO AND THROUGH THE JEWS.
• 08:57 WITH THIS VERY GAVEL, IN THIS VERY PLACE ON MAY 14TH 1948.
• 09:08 A MEETING WAS CALLED TO ORDER
• 09:10 AND FROM THIS PODIUM
• 09:13 DAVID BEN GURION EXPRESSED WHAT IS ISRAEL'S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
• 09:22 FROM THIS WORD, THIS VERY WORD, THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO
• 09:29 A MAN WAS CALLED FORTH FROM A PLACE CALLED TEL AVIV,
• 09:34 MUCH AS HERE WE ARE IN MODERN ISRAEL RIGHT NOW IN TEL AVIV.
• 09:39 THIS PROPHET WAS CALLED FORTH AND HE DECLARED FROM HIS VANTAGE POINT
• 09:43 THAT SOME POINT IN TIME OUT IN THE DISTANT FUTURE
• 09:47 ISRAEL WOULD BE RECONSTITUTED AS A NATION STATE.
• 09:51 IN CHAPTER 37, VERSE 12:
• 09:54 OUR PROPHET EZEKIEL SAYS,
• 09:57 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:00 "THEREFORE PROPHECY"
• 10:02 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:04 "AND SAY TO THEM."
• 10:06 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:09 "THUS SAYETH THE LORD"
• 10:11 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:15 "I WILL OPEN YOUR GRAVES"
• 10:18 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:21 "AND CAUSE YOU TO COME OUT OF YOUR GRAVES."
• 10:24 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:26 "MY PEOPLE"
• 10:27 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 10:31 "AND I WILL BRING YOU INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
• 10:35 AND AS I STAND IN THIS SACRED PLACE ISRAEL
• 10:41 AND AS I SPEAK TO YOU FROM THIS SPECIAL PLACE, HERE IN TEL AVIV
• 10:46 WHERE INDEPENDENCE WAS ANNOUNCED IN 1948,
• 10:52 I CAN'T HELP BUT BELIEVE THAT I'M LIVING IN A WORLD OF PROPHECY FULFILLED
• 10:59 FOR AFTER MANY CENTURIES OF EXILE, DISPERSED AMONGST THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
• 11:07 HOUNDED AND HARANGUED IN MOST OF THE PLACES WHERE WE WERE DISPERSED
• 11:13 CULMINATING FINALLY AND FULLY IN THE ATROCITIES OF THE HOLOCAUST.
• 11:20 WHO WOULD EVER THINK THAT AFTER RECEIVING SUCH A BLUDGEONING SO LONG -
• 11:26 CULMINATING AN UNTOLD MISERIES FOR MILLIONS?
• 11:30 WE KNOW THE STORY GENERALLY OF HOW 1 OUT OF EVERY 3 JEWS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH WERE SLAUGHTERED.
• 11:39 AND THEY'RE AMPLE PICTURES AND PUBLIC RECORD OF WHEN THE ALLIED FORCES
• 11:45 CAME TO REDEEM THOSE THAT WERE HELD IN THESE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
• 11:50 WE SAW THESE HUMAN SKELETONS, THESE EMACIATED FORMS WITH BUT A LITTLE SPARK OF LIFE IN THEM,
• 11:59 BARELY HOLDING TO LIFE.
• 12:02 AND HAVING LONG SINCE GIVEN UP HOLDING ON TO HOPE
• 12:05 THAT FORTUITOUSLY, PROVIDENTIALLY THERE WAS A REDEMPTION
• 12:09 AND THE REDEMPTION THERE, IT SEEMS TO ME, REACHES IT'S FRUITION IN THE REDEMPTION YEAR,
• 12:16 WHEN FINALLY AND FULLY AFTER WAVES OF IMMIGRATION,
• 12:21 BEGINNING ACTUALLY BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST ITSELF -
• 12:25 IN THE 1880's YOU HAVE WAVES OF IMMIGRANTS COMING OVER HERE TO THE NEW WORLD
• 12:31 ESTABLISHING A TOEHOLD AND A FOOTHOLD HERE IN THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.
• 12:35 EZEKIEL SAW IT AND THEY LIVED IT
• 12:39 AND YOU AND I ARE WITNESSES TO IT.
• 12:41 IT'S A GREAT STORY,
• 12:43 WONDERFUL STORY,
• 12:45 A STORY THAT SHOULD BE HERALDED FROM PULPIT TO PULPIT ACROSS THE LAND AND AROUND THE WORLD.
• 12:50 FOR EVERY BIBLE BELIEVING PERSON, SURELY MUST NEEDS READ THE STORY AND SAY,
• 12:55 "MY GOD YOU'RE WORKING WONDERS IN THE EARTH."
• 12:59 BUT THAT'S NOT THE STORY.
• 13:01 IN AS MUCH AS GOD HAS RAISED UP ISRAEL,
• 13:04 THE STORY OF ISRAEL'S EMERGENCE DID NOT GO UNOPPOSED BACK THEN
• 13:08 MUCH AS IT'S CONTINUED EXISTENCE DOESN'T GO UNOPPOSED TODAY.
• 13:14 DIFFICULTIES WITHSTANDING, HOWEVER, GOD IS WATCHING OVER HIS WORD TO PERFORM IT
• 13:19 AND THIS IS ONE OF THE MESSAGES THAT WE SEE WHEN WE READ THE PROPHET EZEKIEL.
• 13:33 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
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• 13:54 YOU MAY WANT TO JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
• 13:57 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN, VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
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• 14:04 (Jeff) HEY YOU LIKE THIS GUYS? (Crowd) YEAH!!!
• 14:06 (Announcer) JOIN US IN ISRAEL FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 14:09 MY FATHER'S COME 5 TIMES BEFORE AND LOVES ISRAEL.
• 14:14 AND THIS IS MY 1ST TIME
• 14:16 AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW, BEYOND WORDS
• 14:19 THE MEANING OF COMING HOME.
• 14:21 IT'S BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION
• 14:24 AND I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THIS,
• 14:27 I NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE LIKE THIS.
• 14:29 SO THE EXPERIENCE HAS TO BE HAD IN PERSON.
• 14:34 ISRAEL IS A LAND OF DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHY EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK.
• 14:38 MOUNTAINS, VALLEYS, STREAMS, RIVERS, TREES,
• 14:42 EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK THERE'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN ISRAEL.
• 14:45 THE VALLEYS, I CAN VISUALIZE THE DRY BONES COMING TOGETHER IN THE VALLEYS, JEFF.
• 14:50 AND IF PEOPLE CAN'T GO WITH US TO ISRAEL,
• 14:52 THEY CAN GET OUR NEWSLETTER,
• 14:54 THEY CAN SEE US ON THE WEB.
• 14:57 HOW ELSE CAN THEY GET A HOLD OF US?
• 14:58 WELL ISRAEL IS A MIRACLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. IT'S A MIRACLE.
• 15:01 IT'S A MIRACLE IN THE WORLD.
• 15:03 AND BIBLE READERS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY
• 15:05 TO SEE THE BIBLE COME ALIVE IN THE NEWS.
• 15:09 THIS SERIES THAT WE'RE MAKING AVAILABLE IN THE OFFER FOR THIS PROGRAM,
• 15:13 "EZEKIEL AND THE MID EAST PIECE PROCESS,"
• 15:16 TELLS THE STORY OF THE MIRACLE OF MODERN ISRAEL,
• 15:19 A MIRACLE THAT PROVES UP THE BIBLE TO BE TRUE.
• 15:23 WE WANT YOU TO HAVE THAT STORY.
• 15:25 BEYOND THAT,
• 15:26 IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN
• 15:28 OUR MINISTRY
• 15:29 AND LOOKING AT THE BIBLE
• 15:30 FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE
• 15:32 AND ALL OF THAT,
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• 15:46 WE WANT YOU TO BE BIBLICALLY INFORMED.
• 15:48 THERE'S A LOT OF NEWS SOURCES ON TELEVISION, BUT WE BELIEVE IN BEING A GOOD NEWS SOURCE.
• 15:53 AND SO WE OPEN UP THE BIBLE AND WE SHOW HOW THE BIBLE'S COMING TRUE TODAY.
• 15:58 AND AGAINST THAT BACKDROP HERE WE GO TODAY TO INDEPENDENCE HALL IN ISRAEL.
• 16:03 AND CONSIDER THE BIRTH, THE REBIRTH OF MODERN ISRAEL.
• 16:10 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 16:26 THEODOR HERZL WAS A NEWSPAPER REPORTER IN A BYGONE ERA.
• 16:32 AN AUSTRIAN REPORTER PARTICULARLY,
• 16:34 HE WAS COVERING
• 16:35 "THE DREYFUS AFFAIR."
• 16:37 A STORY HOW A JEWISH MILITARY OFFICER
• 16:40 WAS GETTING RAILROADED BY THE FRENCH.
• 16:43 HE BECAME CONVINCED IN THE PROCESS OF THAT,
• 16:45 THAT FOR ALL THE JEWS SUFFER, WHAT JEWS NEED IS TO RETURN TO THE ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.
• 16:52 HE BECAME GOD'S INSTRUMENT TO HELP FACILITATE THE MIRACLE
• 16:58 THAT'S COMMEMORATED IN THIS PLACE,
• 17:01 WHERE IT WAS CELEBRATED AND 1ST ANNOUNCED TO THE WORLD
• 17:04 THROUGH THIS MICROPHONE IN FACT.
• 17:06 BEN GURION SPOKE INTO IT AND SAID, "NOW IS THE TIME."
• 17:12 WELL WHAT BEN GURION SPOKE YEARS AGO TO THE REVERED DELEGATES IN THIS ROOM
• 17:20 TO THE COUNCIL MEMBERS,
• 17:22 TO ISRAEL THROUGH NATIONAL RADIO,
• 17:23 AND TO THE WORLD AT LARGE -
• 17:25 WHAT HE SPOKE THEN THROUGH HERE WAS ACTUALLY PRESAGED BY THE PROPHET HERE.
• 17:31 WHY DO I SAY THAT?
• 17:33 IN EZEKIEL CHAPTER 37, VERSE 25:
• 17:36 THE PROPHET SAYS,
• 17:38 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 17:42 AND THEY SHALL DWELL IN THE LAND THAT I'VE GIVEN UNTO JACOB, MY SERVANT.
• 17:47 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 17:50 WHEREIN YOUR FATHERS DWELT.
• 17:53 HE SAYS, "I'M GONNA GIVE YOU THE LAND BACK".
• 17:55 IN VERSE 24 HE IS INSIGHTFUL AS WELL.
• 17:59 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 18:02 AND MY SERVANT DAVID SHALL BE KING OVER THEM.
• 18:06 ISN'T IT STRIKING, BY THE WAY, THAT THE MODERN NATION STATE OF ISRAEL
• 18:11 FLIES UNDER THE BANNER OF THE "MOGAN DAVID", THE SHIELD OF DAVID, THE STAR OF DAVID
• 18:17 AND CARRIES WITH IT THE MEMORY OF DAVID.
• 18:20 THERE'S A SONG "AM YISRAEL CHAI", "THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL LIVE."
• 18:24 AND I GREW UP SINGING A SONG, (SPEAKING HEBREW) DAVID, "THE KING OF ISRAEL LIVES ON."
• 18:33 ISRAEL DOESN'T JUST LIVE ON IN MEMORY,
• 18:36 IT'S FOR INDIVIDUALS THAT WALK THROUGH THE PAGES OF THE BIBLE IN THEIR DAILY DEVOTIONS.
• 18:41 ISRAEL LIVES ON IN HISTORY.
• 18:43 WHY?
• 18:44 BECAUSE OF A MODERN MIRACLE,
• 18:46 A MIRACLE THAT ATTESTS TO MODERN
• 18:49 THAT THE GOD IN ANCIENT WORD IS ALSO THE GOD IN THE MODERN WORLD.
• 18:54 FOR THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, IN EZEKIEL AND ELSEWHERE,
• 18:57 BUT PARTICULARLY IN EZEKIEL OVER AGAIN, GOD SAYS,
• 19:00 "I'M GONNA BRING ABOUT THIS MIRACLE"
• 19:02 "IN ORDER THAT THE WORLD MIGHT KNOW ME IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS."
• 19:07 AND I'D LIKE TO CALL UPON WOMEN AND MEN OF GOOD FAITH AND VIRTUE
• 19:11 TO GET BEHIND THE STRUGGLE HERE IN MODERN ISRAEL.
• 19:16 FOR I BELIEVE THAT GETTING BEHIND THE JEWISH PEOPLE WITH PRAYERS, CARES, DONATION
• 19:21 EVERWHICH WAY, I THINK GETTING BEHIND THAT IS REALLY GETTING BEHIND GOD.
• 19:26 AND IN MUCH THE SAME WAY I BELIEVE THAT RESISTING THAT IS RESISTING GOD.
• 19:31 I BELIEVE THAT TRYING TO GET IN THE WAY OF THAT
• 19:34 IS TRYING TO PUT A STUMBLING BLOCK IN THE WAY OF GOD.
• 19:37 I LOOK AT THE CONTEST BEING PLAYED OUT HERE IN ISRAEL
• 19:40 AS SOMETHING THAT'S SPIRITUAL, NOT JUST MATERIAL.
• 19:45 I BELIEVE THAT ANY BIBLE TEACHER THAT CLAIMS TO BE A LOVER OF THE WORD OF GOD THAT DOES NOT SUPPORT ISRAEL,
• 19:51 ANY MINISTER WITH THAT POSITION OUGHT TO BE SUED FOR MALPRACTICE.
• 19:55 THIS PERSON IS NOT IN TOUCH WITH THE RHYTHMS OF THE TEXT.
• 19:58 THIS PERSON IS NOT IN TOUCH WITH THE HOPES AND THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE LITERATURE.
• 20:03 AND IF YOU'RE INVOLVED IN A CHURCH LIKE THAT
• 20:05 I WOULD SAY FLEE AND MAKE YOUR WAY TO A BIBLE CHURCH,
• 20:08 BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE A BIBLE THAT TEACHES WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORD
• 20:12 AND LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD,
• 20:14 FAITH IS STRENGTHENED AND WE NEED TO BE IN A WORLD WHERE FAITH IS STRENGTHENED.
• 20:19 THIS SERIES OF COURSE LOOKS AT THE VARIOUS PIECES IN EZEKIEL'S PUZZLE.
• 20:24 AND HERE IN THIS PROGRAM WE CONSIDER IT A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT PIECE,
• 20:28 ONE THAT IS SO SIGNIFICANT AND THAT IS THAT GOD SAYS TO HIS PEOPLE OF ISRAEL,
• 20:35 "YOU'VE BEEN SCATTERED",
• 20:37 "YOU'VE BEEN MALIGNED",
• 20:39 "YOU'VE BEEN HURT",
• 20:41 "AND YOUR HOPE IS WANING."
• 20:43 "BUT KNOW THIS,"
• 20:45 "THAT I AM FOR YOU",
• 20:46 "THAT I WILL REGATHER YOU",
• 20:48 "AND I WILL BRING YOU BACK INTO YOUR LAND."
• 20:51 IT DOESN'T GET ANY CLEARER THAN THIS.
• 20:52 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BOYS AND GIRLS,
• 20:54 WE'RE LIVING IN THE MOMENT OF THE FULFILLMENT OF EZEKIEL'S PROMISE.
• 21:01 ♪(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)♪
• 21:59 BEN GURION WAS A MAN WHO HAD A VISION FOR ISRAEL.
• 22:02 HIS SPEECH ALWAYS MOVES ME.
• 22:04 HIS SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT THAT HE LOVED ISRAEL SO MUCH -
• 22:08 "RUACH", THE HEBREW WORD FOR "SPIRIT", JEFF.
• 22:11 WELL, THE SPIRIT'S INVOLVED IN REGATHERING ISRAEL
• 22:13 AND THE WORD "SPIRIT" AND "BREATHE" GOES TOGETHER IN HEBREW. ABSOLUTELY
• 22:16 AND TO BE SURE, BEN GURION WAS A VOICE,
• 22:19 A BREATH OF FRESH AIR IN BRINGING ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE.
• 22:23 AND WHAT LIFE THEY HAVE.
• 22:25 WHAT LIFE.
• 22:26 IN FACT WE TALKED TO UDI MERIOZ
• 22:28 WHO IS AN ARTIST IN JERUSALEM.
• 22:31 HIS FAMILY CAME BACK FROM THE 67 WAR.
• 22:34 THEY HAD LEAVE THE COUNTRY AND THEY CAME BACK
• 22:36 AND SETTLED AGAIN IN JERUSALEM.
• 22:39 THEY HAD TO START ALL OVER AGAIN.
• 22:41 YOU KNOW...AND ARTISTRY REMINDS ME,
• 22:44 THERE'S CREATIVITY, THERE'S LIFE,
• 22:46 THERE'S THOSE ENERGIES BEING BACK IN THE LAND.
• 22:48 IT'S GOOD TO SEE.
• 22:49 IT WAS WONDERFUL TO SEE.
• 22:50 HE'S ALWAYS BEEN A REALLY GOOD FRIEND FOR US.
• 22:52 I ASKED HIM HOW IT WAS TO COME BACK TO JERUSALEM.
• 22:56 WHAT...HOW DID YOU FEEL WHEN YOU SAW IT?
• 22:58 YOU WERE A CHILD.
• 22:59 YEAH, I WAS A CHILD THEN.
• 23:01 1ST OF ALL IT STARTED WITH THE FACT THAT MY FATHER
• 23:04 WHEN WE LEFT THE OLD CITY IN 1948,
• 23:06 MY FATHER MADE A PROMISE,
• 23:08 THAT HE WOULD BE HE 1ST JEW TO COME AND SETTLE HERE
• 23:10 AND BUY A LAND.
• 23:11 SO HE WAS FIGHTING IN THE EGYPTIAN BORDER
• 23:13 AND HE HAD HEARD THAT THE PARATROOPERS WERE HERE,
• 23:15 AND HE ASKED FOR A SPECIAL LEAVE AND WE CAME HERE.
• 23:17 SO WE ARE COMING AND MY FATHER SPOKE FLUENT ARABIC
• 23:20 AND WE WERE MOVING AROUND
• 23:22 AND HE WAS LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO BUY.
• 23:24 BUT OF COURSE WE WENT DOWN ALREADY TO THE KOTEL. TO THE WALL.
• 23:28 TO THE WALL.
• 23:29 FIRST OF ALL,TODAY YOU COME AND SEE THE WALL.
• 23:33 AT THE TIME IT WAS HIDDEN,
• 23:35 THE WALL WAS HIDDEN BEHIND OTHER WALLS AND BEHIND OTHER BUILDINGS,
• 23:38 YOU HAD TO GO DOWN
• 23:40 LIKE A MAZE... RIGHT
• 23:42 AND THEN SUDDENLY YOU LOOK AT SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW FOR 2000 YEARS WE PRAYED
• 23:47 AND WE SAID WE'LL COME BACK
• 23:49 HOPEFULLY WE'LL COME BACK,
• 23:51 AND SUDDENLY WE WAS THERE.
• 23:54 IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING...
• 23:55 AND YOU WERE 9 YEARS OLD WHEN YOU SAW THE WALL THE 1ST TIME.
• 23:57 I WAS 9 YEARS OLD AND I REMEMBER WE WERE ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE
• 24:00 AND THERE WAS ONLY SOLDIERS THEN.
• 24:02 LATER THERE STARTED TO BE OTHER CIVILIANS AND MANY PEOPLE CAME IN.
• 24:06 BUT WE WERE LITERALLY, AFTER THE 1ST SOLDIERS WE WERE THE 1ST TO COME AS CIVILIANS.
• 24:11 WE'RE SITTING IN THE OLD CITY.
• 24:14 WE'RE SITTING IN THIS BUILDING THAT IS...
• 24:15 NOTHING'S IN HERE.
• 24:17 BELOW US IS A CHURCH, PROBABLY MEDIEVAL TIMES,
• 24:18 BUT I'M WATCHING YOU AS YOU POINT OUT THE ARCHES
• 24:21 AND THE WALLS AND THE DOORS AND SAYING,
• 24:23 "WHEN WE CAME THIS WAS ALL RUBBLE AND WE DUG IT ALL OUT."
• 24:27 THAT'S... USED TO BE,
• 24:28 IF YOU LOOK AROUND THAT'S HOW MY HOME LOOKED.
• 24:30 JUST HAD A LITTLE ROOF, BUT IT WAS TEENY.
• 24:32 AGAIN ITS PROBABLY BECAUSE JERUSALEM WAS BUILT WITH SO MANY LAYERS
• 24:38 ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER.
• 24:40 EVERY TIME THERE WAS A DESTRUCTION AND THEN ON TOP THEY BUILT.
• 24:43 WHEN WE CAME IN THERE WAS A TEENY PLACE
• 24:45 AND LITTLE HOLES ON OUTSIDE AS A TOILET.
• 24:48 IT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT EVERYTHING WAS IN RUINS.
• 24:51 NOTHING, NOTHING WAS THERE.
• 24:52 AND WE'RE NOW TRYING TO REVIVE JEWISH LIFE HERE.
• 24:56 PLUS THIS WILL STILL CONTINUE,
• 24:58 I MEAN WHAT WE..,
• 24:59 IT'S NOT A ONE TIME PROCESS,
• 25:01 IT'S NOT A MIRACLE THAT HAPPENS,
• 25:02 IT WAS A MIRACLE TO COME IN,
• 25:04 BUT TO REVIVE EVERYTHING IT'S A SLOW PROCESS
• 25:06 AND WE'RE STILL BUILDING SOME OF THOSE SYNAGOGUES THAT WAS DESTROYED.
• 25:09 IT'S LIKE SOMETHING NEW BORN OUT OF THIS PAST.
• 25:14 THAT WAS OUR FRIEND UDI; WONDERFUL GUY, WONDERFUL ARTIST,
• 25:18 I LOVE SEEING HIM EVERY TIME I GO TO ISRAEL, JEFF.
• 25:20 CHAPTER 37, VERSE 25 SAYS,
• 25:37 GOD MAKES AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH ISRAEL.
• 25:41 YES, IT SOUNDS LIKE GOD LOVES THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 25:43 AND IT SOUNDS LIKE GOD HAS A PLACE FOR THEM.
• 25:47 THERE ARE MANY INDIVIDUALS TODAY THAT AREN'T JEWISH, JUST PEOPLE
• 25:50 AND WONDER DO THEY HAVE A PLACE IN THE WORLD?
• 25:53 MAYBE YOU FEEL DEVASTATED BY CIRCUMSTANCES, MAYBE BY SIN.
• 25:58 WHEN I CONSIDER THE STORY OF GOD'S REBUILDING ISRAEL OUT OF NOTHING,
• 26:04 WHAT'S TRUE FOR ISRAEL CAN BE TRUE FOR YOU.
• 26:07 IT'S THE SAME GOD THAT HAS IT ALL AND HE BESTOWS HIS GRACES UPON ALL WHO CALL UPON HIM.
• 26:12 AND IF YOU'RE AT A PLACE IN YOUR LIFE WHERE YOU NEED THAT REBUILDING GRACE,
• 26:17 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT GOD'S AT A PLACE WHERE HE'S WILLING TO EXTEND IT TO YOU.
• 26:22 THAT'S WHY HE SENT HIS SON.
• 26:24 BUT IT'S NOT GONNA BE BY ACCIDENT,
• 26:27 YOU HAVE TO REPENT OF YOUR SINS AND REACH UP TO HIM AND PARTICIPATE IN THE PROCESS.
• 26:32 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT YOU CAN BE REBUILT TOO.
• 26:35 THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS.
• 26:37 AMEN. GOD DWELLS WITH US FOREVER.
• 26:40 STAY TUNED NEXT WEEK, IT'S WAR.
• 26:44 AND AS YOU GO, SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:47 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM