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

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