Caption transcript for Ezekiel and the MidEast ‘Piece’ Process: “The Battle of Gog and Magog” (7/8)

• 00:02 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.
• 01:05 JEFFERY SEIF HERE WITH MY ASSOCIATE,
• 01:07 SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:08 SHALOM
• 01:09 AND WELCOME BACK TO THE EZEKIEL SERIES.
• 01:10 TODAY WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
• 01:12 EZEKIEL CHAPTER 38 AND 39; WARS AND MORE WARS.
• 01:16 I KNOW JEFF, WHEN I WAS FIRST STUDYING PROPHECY
• 01:18 THIS WAS THE HARDEST CHAPTER FOR ME;
• 01:20 THIS EZEKIEL 38.
• 01:21 WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
• 01:23 WHY ARE THEY ALL COMING AROUND ISRAEL?
• 01:25 IT'S A TOUGH STORY AND IT'S A TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW.
• 01:30 TO LOOK AT THE BIBLE WE SEE THROUGH EZEKIEL
• 01:33 THAT ISRAEL IS RECONSTITUTED AS A NATION STATE.
• 01:36 WE ALSO SEE THAT NATIONS COME AROUND ISRAEL AND ARE BENT ON HER DEMISE.
• 01:42 A STORY IN THE ANCIENT WORD; A STORY IN THE MODERN WORLD;
• 01:47 AND IN THIS PROGRAM WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW IT ALL COMES TOGETHER
• 01:51 AS WE CONSIDER EZEKIEL AND THE MID EAST PIECE PROCESS,
• 01:55 SO MUCH FOR THE ANCIENT WORD, NOW TO THE MODERN WORLD.
• 01:58 EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT!
• 02:01 AS WE CONSIDER TODAY'S NEWS.
• 02:06 EZEKIEL 38
• 02:10 PLACE: A REGION NORTH OF ISRAEL.
• 02:15 TIME: THE LATER YEARS
• 02:22 A MIGHTY ARMY PREPARES TO INVADE ISRAEL;
• 02:25 ALL OF THEM CLOTHED WITH ALL SORTS OF ARMOR,
• 02:29 EVEN A GREAT COMPANY.
• 02:31 "AND THOU SHALT COME UP AGAINST MY PEOPLE."
• 02:35 "SURELY IN THAT DAY THERE SHALL BE A GREAT SHAKING IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
• 02:43 WHY DO THE NATIONS RAGE?
• 02:46 THE PSALMIST RAISED THAT QUESTION THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO
• 02:49 AND I WANT TO RAISE IT NOW AND ANSWER IT
• 02:52 AND I WANT TO IDENTIFY PARTICULARLY WHAT NATIONS.
• 02:56 EZEKIEL, AS WE'VE SEEN IN A PREVIOUS SEGMENT,
• 03:00 NOTED HOW THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL PROPER,
• 03:04 ALL AROUND THE RIM OF ISRAEL WOULD INCUR GOD'S JUDGMENT.
• 03:08 HE MENTIONED AMMON, MOAB, EDOM, PHILISTIA, GAZA;
• 03:13 HE TALKED ABOUT TYRE AND SIDON WHICH IS MODERN LEBANON.
• 03:18 IN THIS SEGMENT WE'LL SEE HOW EZEKIEL EXPANDS THE VISION FOR THE WAR
• 03:24 THAT PLAYS OUT AT THE VERY EDGE OF TIME.
• 03:28 THEREIN EZEKIEL GOES BEYOND THE LOCAL REGION AND GOES FAR NORTH
• 03:32 TO WHAT WOULD ARGUABLY (BE) MODERN RUSSIA.
• 03:35 HE GOES TO THE FAR EAST... WELL NOT TO THE FAR EAST AS WE KNOW IT,
• 03:39 BUT CERTAINLY FURTHER FROM HERE WHEN HE LOOKS AT PERSIA WHICH IS MODERN IRAN.
• 03:44 I FIND IT INTERESTING THAT PEOPLE SAY "NO NUCLEAR PROBLEM THERE TODAY"
• 03:47 BUT THE PROPHET EZEKIEL ENVISIONED PARTICULAR PROBLEMS FROM THAT PART OF THE WORLD.
• 03:54 AND THEN HE GOES OVER INTO NORTHERN AFRICA AS WELL
• 03:56 AS EZEKIEL FORECASTS THINGS TO COME IN A WORLD CAUGHT ABLAZE.
• 04:03 HERE I'M AT A PLACE WHERE THERE'S ACRE AFTER ACRE OF THE ACCOUTREMENTS OF WAR;
• 04:10 PHANTOM JETS, MIRAGE JETS, IT SPEAKS OF THE TECHNOLOGY OF A BYGONE ERA;
• 04:16 THERE'S DIFFERENT KINDS OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTERY;
• 04:21 SPIRITED SOULS, FOUGHT;
• 04:23 EZEKIEL HAD ENVISIONED THAT ISRAEL WOULD BE RECONSTITUTED AS A NATION STATE.
• 04:28 BRAVE MEN LAID DOWN THEIR LIFE AS GOD'S INSTRUMENT TO FACILITATE THAT HAPPENING.
• 04:34 AND THEY ARMED THESE BATTERIES AND THEY MANNED THESE PLANES.
• 04:39 YOU CAN HEAR PLANES STREAKING OVERHEAD AS ISRAEL GEARS UP.
• 04:44 IT'S A MILITARY CULTURE AS ISRAEL MAKES ITSELF READY FOR THINGS TO COME,
• 04:50 THINGS DESCRIBED BY THE PROPHET EZEKIEL WHO NOTED IN THE 37TH CHAPTER
• 04:55 THAT ISRAEL WOULD BE RECONSTITUTED AS A NATION STATE
• 04:58 BUT THEN HE WENT ON TO NOTE THAT THERE'S TROUBLE COMING
• 05:02 AS ISRAEL'S RE-EMERGENCE INVOKES THE IRE OF STATES ROUND ABOUT
• 05:07 AND BRINGS INTO BEING THEN A CONFLICT THAT WILL BE A WAR THAT HAS NO EQUAL IN HUMAN HISTORY.
• 05:17 INVASION IN EZEKIEL'S TIME
• 05:20 SPEARS...SWORDS...
• 05:22 THE BILLOWING CLOUDS OF BARBARIC HOARDS.
• 05:26 FAST FORWARD 2600 YEARS.
• 05:31 "AND THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD."
• 05:36 YES, THERE'LL BE ADVERSARIES ON THE GROUND
• 05:41 AND THERE'LL BE MET BY GROUND TROOPS AS WELL AS FORCES FROM THE AIR.
• 05:47 I'M COMING TO YOU IN FRONT OF A FAMOUS WEAPON IN ISRAEL'S ARSENAL.
• 05:51 AND THIS JET CARRIED 28,000 POUNDS OF BOMBS.
• 05:56 AND I'M SURE BEFORE HE TOOK OFF, THAT PILOT DECIDED TO FASTEN HIS SEATBELTS.
• 06:04 AND NOW...I WANT YOU TO FASTEN YOURS
• 06:09 AND GO WITH ME ON A JOURNEY BACK TO THE FUTURE, BACK IN TIME.
• 06:13 IF YOU'LL OPEN UP YOUR BIBLES PLEASE TO THE PROPHET EZEKIEL, THE 38TH CHAPTER;
• 06:20 I'M GOING TO READ THIS IN MY VERSION,
• 06:23 YOU FEEL FREE TO READ IT IN YOURS.
• 06:25 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME SAYING:
• 06:30 SON OF MAN, SET YOUR FACE TOWARD GOD.
• 06:44 THE LEADER OF SOME CONFEDERACY.
• 06:46 OF THE LAND OF MAGOG
• 06:52 MAGOG BY THE WAY IS ARGUABLY A NUMBER OF THESE COUNTRIES
• 06:57 JUST OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE FORMER USSR.
• 07:03 THE CHIEF PRINCE OF MESHECH AND TUBAL
• 07:11 BOTH OF THESE REFER TO LAND SOUTH OF THE BLACK AND CASPIAN SEAS.
• 07:16 AS NOTED IN A PREVIOUS SEGMENT,
• 07:19 HERE THE PROPHETIC WORD IS REACHING BEYOND ISRAEL AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORS
• 07:26 AND ITS GOING INTO COUNTRY THAT WAS ONCE OCCUPIED BY THOSE
• 07:32 THAT FLEW UNDER THE BANNER OF THE USSR.
• 07:35 THE PROPHET SAYS,
• 07:37 PROPHECY AGAINST THEM.
• 07:42 AND SAY
• 07:44 THUS SAYETH THE LORD GOD
• 07:47 I AM AGAINST THE OH GOG.
• 07:53 AND IT'S NOT JUST GOG AND THOSE THAT WORK IN THAT CONFEDERACY, THE CONFEDERACY JUST NOTED,
• 08:00 BUT THE LIST OF COUNTRIES THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THIS CLIMACTIC WAR WHICH GOD SAYS HE'S AGAINST
• 08:07 IS OUTLINED FURTHER IN VERSE 5;
• 08:10 "PERUSH"
• 08:12 WHICH WOULD BE PERSIA IN ANTIQUITY,
• 08:15 IT'S IRAN IN MODERNITY.
• 08:18 THERE'S A FEDERATION OF RUSSIAN SATELLITES AND WE'RE TOLD HERE THAT PERUSH IS INVOLVED.
• 08:27 AND YOU KNOW TODAY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IRAN AND RUSSIA IS SO VERY FASCINATING
• 08:34 THE WAY THEY'VE HOPPED IN BED WITH EACH OTHER POLITICALLY AND MILITARILY,IT'S THE RUSSIANS
• 08:38 THAT ARE HELPING FUEL THE NUCLEAR PROGRAM
• 08:43 THAT WE'RE ALL LIKE OSTRICHES STICKING OUR HEADS IN THE SANDS...
• 08:47 MAYBE IF WE DON'T LOOK AT IT WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT BEING THERE.
• 08:51 THE PEOPLE THAT FLEW THIS PLANE HERE IN ISRAEL, THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO BE SO COMFORTABLE,
• 08:57 THEY CAN'T AFFORD THE EXERCISE IN SELF-DECEIT.
• 09:01 THIS PROPHET ENVISIONS THERE'S A WAR.
• 09:05 IN CHAPTER 37 ISRAEL IS RECONSTITUTED.
• 09:07 IN CHAPTER 38 HE SEES ENERGIES BEING MOBILIZED AGAINST THIS FLEDGLING STATE.
• 09:13 I WISH PEOPLE WERE BIBLE READERS THAT MADE DECISIONS
• 09:15 ABOUT WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD AND HOW TO DEAL WITH IT.
• 09:19 WELL HE MENTIONS HERE IN VERSE 5,
• 09:20 "PERUSH", PERSIA;
• 09:23 "CUSH" WHICH WOULD BE SUDAN BLEEDING INTO ETHIOPIA
• 09:28 AND THEN HE GOES "POOT" OR "PUT" WHICH IS MODERN LIBYA.
• 09:33 WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THIS WRITER SEES ISRAEL CENTRAL
• 09:37 AND THEN THIS WRITER OBSERVES SATELLITE RUSSIAN STATES;
• 09:43 THIS WRITER OBSERVES PERSIA OR IRAN;
• 09:47 THIS WRITER OBSERVES AS WELL THAT STATES IN NORTHERN AFRICA
• 09:52 GETTING INVOLVED IN THIS COALITION.
• 09:55 HE MENTIONS IN VERSE 6,
• 09:58 ...OR HE MENTIONS GOMER;
• 10:03 LET'S LEAVE IT AT THAT.
• 10:03 AND THEN HE SAYS
• 10:04 THE HOUSE OF TOGARMAH
• 10:08 AND HERE WE'RE LOOKING AT MODERN TURKEY ARGUABLY.
• 10:12 WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IS GO TO A BIBLE ATLAS
• 10:14 AND LOOK AT THESE COUNTRIES THAT ARE MENTIONED AND SEE WHERE THEY ARE
• 10:18 AND YOU'LL SEE THE COUNTRIES ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 10:22 ITS AMAZING THAT THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO THIS PROPHET CALLED THE SHOT.
• 10:30 AND THESE SHOTS THAT ARE FIRED IN THIS WAR INDEED WILL BE SHOTS THAT ARE HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
• 10:38 AND NOT ONLY THESE STATES, BUT THEN HE MENTIONS AT THE TAIL END OF VERSE 6,
• 10:43 AND MANY PEOPLES WITH THEE
• 10:49 THERE'S THIS MASSIVE COALITION OF FORCES
• 10:53 THAT HAVE THEIR ENERGIES VESTED IN DESTROYING THIS FLEDGLING NATION STATE.
• 10:59 IN VERSE 8 WE'RE TOLD:
• 11:09 THIS IS FASCINATING AS THE AUTHOR TELEGRAPHS TO THE EDGE OF TIME.
• 11:13 WHILE IT'S TRUE THAT FROM EZEKIEL'S PERSPECTIVE THE PERSIANS WOUND UP
• 11:20 GETTING THE BETTER OF THE BABYLONIANS ONE COULD SAY
• 11:22 THAT YOU COULD SEE MOVEMENT IN THE AREA.
• 11:25 BUT THERE'S NOTHING OF THE MAGNITUDE THAT'S DESCRIBED HERE.
• 11:30 THIS BECKONS ONE TO LOOK BEYOND THE PRESENT INTO THE FUTURE.
• 11:36 AND HOW FASCINATING IS IT THAT THE HATIKVA CHAPTER,
• 11:41 WITH THE RE-GATHERING OF ISRAEL CHAPTER,
• 11:43 RIGHT AFTER THAT THIS AUTHOR DESCRIBES PARTICIPANTS IN A WAR.
• 11:50 AND WE'RE SEEING THIS HAPPEN BEFORE OUR EYES TODAY.
• 11:54 AND THIS WRITER SAYS THAT THE WAR DESCRIBED YESTERDAY BELONGS TO TOMORROW.
• 12:00 HE SAYS, "THIS BELONGS..." IN VERSE 8,
• 12:09 ISRAEL IS THE LAND THAT WAS BROUGHT BACK FROM THE SWORD.
• 12:19 THE BIBLE SAID IT, I BELIEVE IT.
• 12:21 AND WHAT'S FASCINATING IS WHAT THE BIBLE SAID THEN SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING NOW.
• 12:27 WHAT A STORY!
• 12:29 THE WORD OF GOD PROVES TRUE DOES IT NOT?
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• 13:15 JOIN US IN ISRAEL FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
• 13:18 MY FATHER'S COME 5 TIMES BEFORE
• 13:21 AND LOVES ISRAEL.
• 13:23 AND THIS IS MY 1ST TIME AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW,
• 13:27 BEYOND WORDS THE MEANING OF COMING HOME.
• 13:30 IT'S BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION
• 13:33 AND I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THIS,
• 13:36 I NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE LIKE THIS.
• 13:38 SO THE EXPERIENCE HAS TO BE HAD IN PERSON.
• 13:43 ON THE SEA OF GALILEE WE'RE IN A 1ST CENTURY BOAT;
• 13:47 WE SING THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER; WE RAISE THE AMERICAN FLAG.
• 13:51 WE THEN TURN AROUND; WE RAISE THE ISRAELI FLAG AND SING THE ISRAELI NATIONAL ANTHEM,
• 13:57 "HATIKIVA", "THE HOPE".
• 13:59 JEFF IT IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD.
• 14:01 YES AND IT'S A PEACEFUL PLACE
• 14:02 OUT THERE ON THE SEA OF GALILEE ISN'T IT?
• 14:04 IT IS AMAZING ON HOW PEACEFUL IT IS.
• 14:06 WE SEE ALL THE MOUNTAINS AROUND US.
• 14:08 WE KNOW THERE ARE PROBABLY ENEMIES ALL AROUND US,
• 14:10 BUT IT IS SO PEACEFUL.
• 14:12 YOU CAN REALLY FEEL THE PRESENCE OF GOD THERE.
• 14:14 SO MANY PEOPLE TRAVEL WITH US
• 14:16 AND THEY'RE WELL INTENDED FRIENDS AND RELATIVES SAY,
• 14:19 "HOW CAN YOU GO TO ISRAEL IT'S SO SCARY?"
• 14:21 WELL, PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED.
• 14:23 ENOUGH OF THAT NOW, LET'S TALK ABOUT SOME SCARY STUFF.
• 14:26 IN THIS PROGRAM WE LOOK AT THE FUTURE, NOT THE MOMENT.
• 14:29 BUT IT'S CLOSE ENOUGH TO TALK ABOUT IT.
• 14:31 ZOLA LEVITT TALKED ABOUT IT WITH DR. THOMAS MCCALL IN THIS DVD PROGRAM CALLED "THE END".
• 14:37 YOU MIGHT WANT TO GET IT IF YOU'RE INTERESTED
• 14:38 IN THE BIBLICAL APPROACH TO HISTORY'S END GAME.
• 14:41 ZOLA AND DR. MCCALL WROTE A BOOK BY THE SAME NAME; TWO PRODUCTS, SAME COVER.
• 14:46 YOU'LL FIND OUT ABOUT IT MORE AS WE GO THROUGH THIS PROGRAM.
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• 15:01 AND SPEAKING ABOUT COMMENDING TO YOU WE HAVE A STORY TO TELL
• 15:06 AS WE LOOK AT THE ANCIENT WORD IN THE MODERN WORLD
• 15:09 AND WE CONSIDER THE UNLEASHING OF THE DOGS OF WAR.
• 15:16 "THOU SHALT ASCEND AND COME LIKE A STORM."
• 15:20 "THOU SHALT BE LIKE A CLOUD TO COVER THE LAND."
• 15:23 "THOU AND ALL THY BANDS AND MANY PEOPLE WITH THEE."
• 15:35 AND THE DOGS OF WAR WILL BE UNLEASHED AND THE ENGINES OF WAR WILL BE TURNED ON AND RAMPED UP.
• 15:45 AS PRESSURES IN THE REGION MOVE PEOPLE TO A WAR, THE LIKES OF WHICH HISTORY HAS NOT SEEN.
• 15:55 AGAIN, PLANES OVERHEAD, ACRES OF PLANES ROUND ABOUT.
• 16:02 I'M COMING TO YOU FROM ISRAEL, A COUNTRY THAT'S KNOWN WAR AND IS READY FOR WAR.
• 16:08 IF YOU'LL LOOK WITH ME IN EZEKIEL CHAPTER 38, VERSE 15
• 16:12 YOU'LL DISCOVER THAT THE WAR DESCRIBED HERE IS SPEARHEADED
• 16:17 THAT COME FROM FORCES OUT OF THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE NORTH.
• 16:22 IF YOU WOULD LOOK FROM ISRAEL PROPER AND GO DUE NORTH YOU'D EVENTUALLY RUN INTO MOSCOW.
• 16:29 HERE THE PROPHET SAYS:
• 16:40 THERE'S A FEDERATION WE'VE ALREADY CONSIDERED DIFFERENT PARTIES OF THAT FEDERATION.
• 16:46 IN VERSE 16 THE PROPHET SAYS THAT THIS CONFLICT IS RESERVED FOR A POINT IN HISTORY
• 16:53 THAT THIS PROPHET CALLS QUOTE, "THE END OF DAYS".
• 16:56 HE SAYS:
• 17:04 "MY LAND ISRAEL."
• 17:06 AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF TIME FORCES ARE MOBILIZED TO BRING PRESSURE TO BEAR HERE IN ISRAEL.
• 17:16 WHAT'S THE OUTCOME OF THIS STRUGGLE?
• 17:20 IF YOU'LL LOOK WITH ME PLEASE IN VERSE 23 AT THE END WE DISCOVER THAT...
• 17:26 WELL IN THE VERSE BEFOREHAND:
• 17:32 THAT FORCES ARE GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO BEAR
• 17:35 AND TO HOLD AT BAY THE MASSES
• 17:37 WHOSE ENERGIES ARE INVESTED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NATION STATE OF ISRAEL.
• 17:43 THE BIBLE SAYS:
• 17:51 BUT IT SEEMS TO ME THAT MANY IN THE CHURCH ARE SLUMBERING AND SLEEPING TODAY.
• 17:57 MANY DENOMINATIONAL OFFICIALS HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP WHEN IT COMES TO ISRAEL AND THE JEWS.
• 18:03 MANY PROFESSORS OF THEOLOGY HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP, MANY PASTORS ARE ASLEEP,
• 18:09 AND MANY IN THE PEWS ARE UNAWARE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD
• 18:13 BECAUSE THEY DON'T PERCEIVE WHAT WAS FORECASTED IN THE WORD.
• 18:19 OH, IF ONE WOULD JUST TAKE THE BIBLE TO MEAN WHAT IT SAYS AND SAYS WHAT IT MEANS,
• 18:24 FAITH WOULD BE BUILT UP.
• 18:26 BUT JESUS IN HIS PARABLE SAID AT THE END OF DAYS "MANY WILL SLUMBER AND SLEEP."
• 18:33 BUT MY HOPE IS THAT MANY WILL WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE
• 18:38 AND SEE THAT GOD IS AT WORK IN THE WORLD.
• 18:41 THAT FORCES AREN'T JUST SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL
• 18:44 BUT RATHER THE LORD IS WATCHING HIS WORD TO PERFORM IT.
• 18:49 TO WHAT END?
• 18:50 IN VERSE 23 HE SAYS:
• 19:08 AT THE END OF DAYS GOD SHOWS HIMSELF STRONG WITH THE NET RESULT
• 19:14 THAT PEOPLE COME TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
• 19:17 BUT NOT EVERYONE ACKNOWLEDGES THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
• 19:20 WE'RE TOLD HERE IN THE TEXT THAT FORCES FROM DUE NORTH
• 19:24 WILL INVEST THEIR ENERGIES AGAINST ISRAEL.
• 19:27 WHICH REMINDS ME, HERE I AM IN FRONT OF THIS JET, A PHANTOM, A JET OF A BYGONE ERA
• 19:32 THAT WAS COMMANDEERED BY THE SYRIANS THAT CAME TO SYRIA BY WAY OF RUSSIA.
• 19:40 A SYRIAN PILOT DEFECTED, CAME TO ISRAEL.
• 19:44 ISRAEL OFFERED THE PILOT RESIDENCY.
• 19:47 HE OPTED TO LATER GO TO NORTH AMERICA.
• 19:50 AND WHILE THERE HIS HEAD WAS UNFORTUNATELY SEVERED FROM HIS BODY.
• 19:56 TIME CAUGHT UP WITH HIM AND THE SYRIANS LET HIM KNOW WHAT THEY THOUGHT OF HIM.
• 20:03 FRIENDS I BELIEVE THAT TIME WILL CATCH UP WITH US
• 20:07 AND INSTEAD OF LOSING OUR HEAD LETS GAIN OUR WITS.
• 20:11 AND THE WAY THAT WE CAN GET OUR WITS, I BELIEVE,
• 20:15 IS TO LOOK AT WORLD EVENTS THROUGH A BIBLICAL LENS.
• 20:20 SCRIPTURE SAYS THE LORD DECLARES THE END FROM THE BEGINNING.
• 20:25 AND I FIND IT FASCINATING TO HEAR REVIEW
• 20:28 THAT THE PROPHET EZEKIEL ENVISIONED THAT GOD WOULD BRING JUDGMENT TO BEAR
• 20:33 AGAINST THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL.
• 20:36 AND NOT JUST THOSE BORDERING THE RIM,
• 20:39 BUT HE MENTIONS NATIONS EXPANDING DUE EAST AND NORTH AND WEST THAT COME AGAINST ISRAEL.
• 20:45 HE NOTES AS WELL THAT INASMUCH AS THERE'S STRUGGLES AGAINST ISRAEL
• 20:49 IN THAT CONTEXT HE NOTES ISRAEL'S RE-EMERGENCE AS A STRONG NATION STATE.
• 20:55 AND THEN HE SAYS THAT THESE FORCES EVENTUALLY COME AGAINST ISRAEL
• 20:59 BUT GOD WATCHES OVER ISRAEL AND GIVES ISRAEL A GOOD SUCCESS AT THE END OF THE DAYS.
• 21:05 WHAT A STORY, WHAT A WORD STRAIGHT FROM THE PAGES OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE.
• 21:18 MUSIC
• 22:14 WELL THAT'S ZOLA'S MUSIC.
• 22:17 HE WAS VERY INSPIRATIONAL AT ONE LEVEL AND HE WAS INFORMATIONAL AT ANOTHER.
• 22:22 SANDRA, HE WROTE MANY BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT OF THIS PROGRAM,
• 22:26 DIDN'T HE?
• 22:26 PROPHECY WAS HIS LIFE.
• 22:28 BUT HE WAS ALSO HE MUSICIAN WHICH JUST
• 22:31 ALWAYS WAS DEAR TO MY HEART.
• 22:33 HE LOVED MUSIC AND YET PROPHECY,
• 22:35 HE WAS ON FIRE FOR PROPHECY;
• 22:37 RUSSIA, IRAN, IRAQ, PERSIA, ETHIOPIA;
• 22:40 HE WAS ON FIRE FOR PROPHECY.
• 22:42 A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO TOUCH IT
• 22:44 BUT IT'S A FASCINATING STORY TO LOOK AT THE ANCIENT WORD
• 22:47 AND THE MODERN WORLD AND PUT IT TOGETHER, HE DID IT.
• 22:49 WELL, HOW DO WE KNOW THE END IF WE DON'T KNOW THE BEGINNING?
• 22:52 SO HE THOUGHT PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER MADE SENSE AND IT DOES,
• 22:55 IT MAKES THE BIBLE, MAKES PERFECT SENSE.
• 22:57 AND TO THAT END WE TALKED TO A YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF JERRY RASSAMNI
• 23:01 WHO WAS A...
• 23:03 JEFF, FOR A LACK OF A BETTER WORD, REALLY A MILITANT KILLER.
• 23:07 HE DESCRIBED HIMSELF THAT WAY. HE DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS THAT.
• 23:10 BUT I LOOKED IN HIS EYES AND I KNOW YOU DID TOO,
• 23:13 HE IS TRULY A NEW CREATION.
• 23:15 I LOVED INTERVIEWING HIM AND I THINK YOU'LL LIKE IT.
• 23:19 SO WITHOUT HESITATION I TOOK A SNIPER RIFLE WITH A LONG SCOPE
• 23:23 AND I AIMED IT AT THE MAN TOLLING THE BELL.
• 23:25 I THOUGHT SURELY ALLAH WAS SMILING AT ME.
• 23:28 AND WHEN I HAD HIS HEAD SECURE
• 23:31 IN MY CROSSHAIRS I PULLED THE TRIGGER
• 23:34 AND I WAS GRINNING FROM EAR TO EAR.
• 23:36 BUT AT THE TIME I WAS DISTRAUGHT AS I SAW THE BULLET SMOTE THE WALL INCHES ABOVE HIS HEAD
• 23:43 AS HE DUCKED DOWN WITH THE TOLL OF THE BELL AFTER A LONG PAUSE.
• 23:47 I SAID, "ONLY IF I HAD AIMED AT HIS HEART INSTEAD I WOULD HAVE SURELY GOT HIM."
• 23:51 BUT THE MAN DUCKED AND HE RAN FOR HIS LIFE
• 23:55 AND HE LEFT ME DISTRAUGHT.
• 23:57 SO THAT'S THE HATRED THAT BREWED IN MY HEART SANDRA.
• 24:00 IT'S HARD FOR ME TO BELIEVE THAT THERE'S ONE RELIGION
• 24:02 THAT REALLY SAYS THEY WANT TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD.
• 24:05 THAT'S JUST HARD FOR ME TO BELIEVE.
• 24:06 AREN'T THERE GOOD MUSLIMS OUT THERE?
• 24:08 ABSOLUTELY, I BELIEVE THAT
• 24:11 THERE'S ONLY A SMALL FUNDAMENTALIST FRINGE THAT IS BENT ON DESTRUCTION OF THE WEST
• 24:16 BUT THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY FOLLOW THE KORAN'S HARD LINE INTERPRETATION.
• 24:21 BUT THE MAJORITY OF MUSLIMS, THEY WANT THE SAME THINGS OUT OF LIFE THAT YOU AND I WANT
• 24:27 WHICH IS LIBERTY, FREEDOM, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
• 24:30 AND SO THEY DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO THOSE HARD LINE INTERPRETATIONS OF ISLAM.
• 24:35 OKAY.
• 24:36 I GUESS IT'S BECAUSE THAT'S ALL I EVER HEAR
• 24:38 IS THAT THIS HARD LINE ISLAM...HARD LINE ISLAM.
• 24:40 I WANT TO KNOW THAT THERE IS HOPE,
• 24:42 THAT REALLY THERE IS HOPE FOR EVERYONE.
• 24:44 WELL THERE IS HOPE.
• 24:46 I MEAN I'M SITTING HERE BECAUSE GOD CAN CHANGE THE HEART SANDRA.
• 24:49 AND HE TOOK MY HEART OF STONE...
• 24:51 I'M LOOKING AT YOU.
• 24:52 YOU ARE A NEW CREATION.
• 24:53 I LOOK INTO YOUR EYES, THERE IS A MAN OF LOVE,
• 24:55 THERE IS A MAN OF GOD IN THERE.
• 24:57 I CANNOT IMAGINE WHERE YOU'VE COME FROM,
• 25:00 I REALLY CAN'T.
• 25:01 WELL IT JUST SHOWS
• 25:03 THAT GOD CAN CHANGE THE HEART.
• 25:05 YOU KNOW WHEN I ACCEPTED YESHUA, WHEN I ACCEPTED MESSIAH
• 25:08 IT WAS IF I COULD CRY OUT WITH PAUL IN ONE VOICE IN 1ST TIMOTHY 1:13.
• 25:12 EVEN THOUGH I WAS FORMERLY A BLASPHEMER
• 25:16 AND A PERSECUTOR AND A VIOLENT AGGRESSOR,YET I WAS SHOWN MERCY.
• 25:20 AND SO THE GRACE OF GOD IS SUFFICIENT FOR ALL OF US.
• 25:24 AND IF IT'S SUFFICIENT ME IT CAN WORK FOR ANYBODY ELSE.
• 25:27 GOD BLESS YOU, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.
• 25:29 THANK YOU.
• 25:32 WELL YOU'VE JUST HEARD FROM A FORMER SOLDIER IN MUHAMMAD'S ARMY.
• 25:39 I THINK ITS FASCINATING A STONE COLD KILLER, BUT WE GET NO SENSE OF THAT ABOUT HIM NOW.
• 25:46 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 25:47 BECAUSE HE'S BORN ANEW, A NEW CREATION.
• 25:50 AND LET ME JUST SAY THAT THE SAME GOD THAT TRANSFORMED JERRY'S HEART
• 25:55 IS IN THE BUSINESS OF TRANSFORMING YOURS AND MINE.
• 26:01 BUT YOU HAVE TO DO AND I HAVE TO DO WHAT JERRY DID, THAT IS REPENT OF SINS,
• 26:05 ASK GOD FOR FORGIVENESS, ASK HIS SON TO COME INTO OUR HEART AND FILL US.
• 26:11 IN RESPONSE TO SO DOING THERE'S A NEW WORLD TO DAWN
• 26:15 FOR THOSE THAT WOULD TAKE GOD UP ON HIS OFFER
• 26:18 TO HEAL AND FORGIVE.
• 26:19 AIN'T IT THE TRUTH AMEN.
• 26:20 HE RESTORES US WITH FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM. YES
• 26:23 WE ARE OUT OF FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM
• 26:25 UNTIL HE RESTORES THAT.
• 26:26 WE HAVE A NEW HEART.
• 26:28 AND JERRY REALLY IS AN EXAMPLE OF A NEW HEART.
• 26:30 YEAH, WE CAN LOOK AT THE BIBLE STORY ABOUT A WORLD ABLAZE
• 26:34 BUT IT'S NICE TO SEE THE LORD KINDLE A FIRE IN THE HEART
• 26:38 OF SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HIM. IT IS.
• 26:39 WHEN TALKING AND SPEAKING OF RESTORATION,
• 26:41 NEXT WEEK WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE RESTORATION OF THE TEMPLE.
• 26:44 STAY TUNED FOR THAT BECAUSE THAT IS THE HOPE FOR US ALL.
• 26:48 AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:49 SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 26:51 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.