Caption transcript for Ezekiel and the MidEast ‘Piece’ Process: “The Restored Temple” (8/8)

• 00:02 WITH DR. JEFFERY 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."
• 01:01 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:04 JEFFERY SEIF HERE WITH MY ASSOCIATE AND CO-HOST,
• 01:07 SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:08 SHALOM
• 01:09 AND WELCOME BACK TO THE EZEKIEL SERIES.
• 01:11 THIS IS THE FINAL PROGRAM.
• 01:13 IN SOME WAYS IT MAKES ME SAD
• 01:14 BECAUSE WE'RE FINISHED
• 01:16 AND YET IN OTHER WAYS IT'S A REALLY EXCITING,
• 01:19 BECAUSE IT ENDS ON A POSITIVE NOTE.
• 01:21 IT ENDS IN THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL.
• 01:24 IT ENDS IN THE RESTORATION OF THEIR SOULS.
• 01:26 IT'S A GREAT STORY.
• 01:28 WHAT DO YOU THINK SANDRA, IN THIS WORLD,
• 01:30 POSITIVE IS GOOD, HUNH?
• 01:32 WELL, POSITIVE IS ALWAYS GOOD AND HERE WE HAVE THE BIBLE
• 01:34 AND THE BIBLE IS NOTHING BUT POSITIVE.
• 01:36 THERE ARE NOT SOME GOOD STORIES, BUT IT ALWAYS COMES OUT, GOD IS IN CONTROL.
• 01:41 YES AND SPEAKING OF THOSE VARIOUS STORIES,
• 01:43 IN EZEKIEL SOME OF THE STORIES ARE DOWN RIGHT DISCOURAGING
• 01:47 AND FULL OF JUDGEMENT MOTIFS.
• 01:50 AS THE PROPHETS ARE DENOUNCING SIN, THE PROPHET, EXCUSE ME,
• 01:54 EZEKIEL GOES AFTER ISRAEL, GOES AFTER THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT
• 01:58 AND TALKS ABOUT A WORLD ABLAZE.
• 01:59 BUT THE BIBLE DOESN'T LEAVE US THERE.
• 02:01 THROUGH THE PROPHET EZEKIEL
• 02:03 WE SEE A WORLD RESTORED, DON'T WE?
• 02:05 WE SEE THE TEMPLE RESTORED,
• 02:06 THE PEOPLE RESTORED, AND OUR SALVATION IS THERE.
• 02:10 YES AND SALVATION IS GOOD, RESTORATION IS GOOD AND OFF WE GO TO EDEN,
• 02:16 PARADISE RESTORED.
• 02:18 IT WAS LOST IN GENESIS, IT'S RECOVERED IN REVELATION
• 02:21 AND HERE'S EZEKIEL'S STORY OF A WORLD GONE GOOD.
• 02:25 PART OF THE PROCESS OF THE UNFOLDING OF GOD'S WORD AND WORLD AT THE END OF DAYS.
• 02:34 EZEKIEL'S VISION OF A FUTURE TEMPLE IS GLORIOUS.
• 02:38 PARADISE RESTORED.
• 02:40 AND BY THE RIVER THEREOF UPON THE BANK THEREOF SHALL GROW ALL TREES FOR FOOD.
• 02:49 BRINGING FORTH NEW FRUIT WHOSE LEAF SHALL NOT FADE.
• 02:53 AND THE LEAF THEREOF SHALL BE FOR MEDICINE.
• 03:01 THIS IS ARGUABLY SOME OF THE MOST SACRED SPACE ON PLANET EARTH.
• 03:07 NO PREACHER HYPE, NO VISUAL EFFECTS, JUST RAW SACRED SPACE.
• 03:15 MY FEET ARE PLANTED IN THE KIDRON VALLEY.
• 03:19 THERE IS THE EASTERN WALL OF WHAT WAS THE TEMPLE IN JESUS' DAY.
• 03:26 WHAT A PLACE!
• 03:28 I'M SO THRILLED TO BE HERE. OUR MINISTRY'S DONORS SENT ME HERE,
• 03:33 THAT THEY PAY THAT WE CAN SPEAK FROM THIS PLACE TO YOU.
• 03:38 OH I LOVE IT WHEN THE WORD OF GOD GOES FORTH FROM JERUSALEM.
• 03:45 BUT THE EZEKIEL STORY ISN'T AS MUCH THE WORD GOING FORTH FROM JERUSALEM
• 03:52 AS MUCH AS IT IS THE WORD OF THE LORD ABOUT JERUSALEM.
• 03:57 BUT NOT JUST JERUSALEM.
• 03:58 JERUSALEM YES, BUT THE WHOLE WORLD.
• 04:02 IN EZEKIEL WE SEE GOD'S END GAME FOR PLANET EARTH.
• 04:07 AND IN AS MUCH AS TODAY PEOPLE SCURRY AROUND TO TRY AND WORK UP PEACE,
• 04:12 TO BRING ABOUT A CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES ON PLANET EARTH, OH THEY TRY, BUT GOD HAS A PLAN.
• 04:19 AND HE HAS A DAY HE SAID:
• 04:21 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 04:25 THERE'LL COME A DAY WHEN NATION WILL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION.
• 04:31 AND NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANYMORE.
• 04:34 WELL WHAT'S THE PLAN?
• 04:36 EZEKIEL SAYS NUMBER 1, ISRAEL WAS RECONSTITUTED AS A NATIONSTATE.
• 04:40 NUMBER 2, NATIONS ROUND ABOUT THEN ARE HELLBENT ON THAT FLEDGLING STATE'S DEMISE.
• 04:46 FRIENDS WE LIVE IN A WORLD TODAY WHERE ISRAEL IS RECONSTITUTED AS A NATIONSTATE
• 04:52 AND WE LIVE IN A WORLD TODAY WHEN THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ARE HELLBENT ON HER DEMISE.
• 04:58 IN THIS SERIES WE SAW THAT EZEKIEL WAS SPECIFIC.
• 05:01 HE SPEAKS ABOUT FORCES BEING DRAWN IN FROM ANCIENT PERSIA, WHICH WILL BE MODERN IRAN.
• 05:07 LIKEWISE HE SEES A COLLISION OF FORCES GALVANIZING AROUND A STRONG NORTHERN POWER
• 05:13 THAT ENTERS INTO THE STAGE OF THE END-TIME DRAMA.
• 05:16 IT'S STRIKING THE NATURE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NORTHERN PEOPLE AND PERSIA.
• 05:20 AND THIS SMELLS LIKE RUSSIAN IN THE ONE HAND AND IRAN ON THE OTHER.
• 05:25 WE NEED TO STAY TUNED TO THAT STORY, BUT AS WE WRAP,
• 05:29 PAY ATTENTION TO THIS STORY WE'LL SEE IN A MINUTE.
• 05:32 THE WORD OF THE LORD IS THAT A TEMPLE OF JEHOVAH IS REBUILT ON THIS MOUNTAIN
• 05:37 AND THAT WATERS FLOW FORTH FROM THIS MOUNTAIN.
• 05:40 THEY FILL THE VALLEY AND THEY FILL THE WORLD.
• 05:44 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 05:46 AND WHEN THEY FILL IT THEY THRILL IT.
• 05:48 THEY WIPE AWAY TEARS FROM EYES, THEY BRING HEALING TO PLANET EARTH.
• 05:52 FRIENDS, IN EZEKIEL CHAPTER 47.
• 05:56 LET ME READ THIS IN MY VERSION, HAVE A LOOK AT IT IN YOURS.
• 06:01 HE SAYS:
• 06:02 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 06:11 THAT THE WATERS WILL COME FORTH HITHER, HE SAYS
• 06:14 AND ALL THINGS WILL BE HEALED AND MAY LIVE WHERESOEVER THE RIVER COMES.
• 06:26 IN A VISION EZEKIEL IS LED UNTO THE RIVER OF THE SACRED PLACE.
• 06:31 AND HE BROUGHT ME THROUGH THE WATERS, THE WATERS WERE TO THE ANKLES.
• 06:39 AND HE MEASURED AND THE WATERS WERE TO THE KNEES.
• 06:44 AGAIN HE MEASURED AND THE WATERS WERE TO THE LOINS.
• 06:48 AND IT WAS A RIVER THAT I COULD NOT PASS OVER.
• 06:55 THERE'S HEALING WATERS THAT COME FROM THIS PLACE,
• 06:59 FROM THIS SACRED SPACE.
• 07:01 AND THEY FLOOD PLANET EARTH.
• 07:05 THEY BRING REFRESHMENT, HEALTH, AND HEALING.
• 07:10 THERE'S TREES ROUND ABOUT THE RIVER, TO USE THE ANALOGY HERE IN THE TEXT.
• 07:14 AND WE'RE TOLD IN CHAPTER 47, VERSE 12:
• 07:18 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 07:21 THAT THE LEAF IS FOR THE HEALING.
• 07:25 YOU MIGHT RECALL IN REVELATION AS HE CLOSES, HE SEES THE WATER OF THE RIVER OF LIFE
• 07:29 AND THE TREE OF LIFE THERE AND HE SAYS THAT THE FRUIT OF THE TREE
• 07:33 IS FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS.
• 07:36 FRIENDS I WANT YOU TO KNOW THERE'S A HEALING OF THE NATIONS.
• 07:40 WE LIVE IN A WORLD TODAY THAT'S RACKED BY SOCIAL UNREST, POLITICAL, INTRIGUE,
• 07:46 AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE DEVIL IS HAVING HIS DAY.
• 07:49 BUT THERE COMES A DAY WHEN THE SWORDS ARE BEAT INTO PLOW SHARES.
• 07:54 INSTEAD OF ENERGIES BEING INVESTED ON SELF-DEFENSE AND AGGRESSION,
• 07:58 ENERGIES ARE INVESTING IN TILLING THE EARTH.
• 08:01 AND AGAINST THAT BACKDROP GOD PROMISES A BOUNTIFUL EARTH
• 08:05 WHEN THE WORD OF THE LORD COMES FORTH FROM JERUSALEM, LIKE THE PROPHETS LONG AGO ENVISIONED.
• 08:12 AND SPEAKING OF LONG AGO, ONCE A POND A TIME THERE WAS A PLACE CALLED EDEN.
• 08:17 AND WE'RE TOLD THAT RIVERS SPRANG FORTH FROM EDEN
• 08:20 AND THERE WAS A TREE OF LIFE THERE IN THE GARDEN.
• 08:23 WE'RE TOLD THAT EDEN WAS A PARADISE STATE WHERE THERE WAS FELICITY AND PEACE.
• 08:27 EDEN WAS WIPED OUT WHEN SIN MADE IT'S ENTRANCE ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA.
• 08:33 BUT WHEN ONE CONSIDERS EZEKIEL AND HIS PIECE PROCESS, EDEN RETURNS.
• 08:39 AND THEN THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH COME TO THIS HILL AND SAY,
• 08:43 "COME LET US GO TO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND LET'S WORSHIP THE GOD OF JACOB."
• 08:49 IF YOU'RE BROKEN, DISTRAUGHT, IF YOU HAVE CARES AND DESPAIRS
• 08:54 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THERE'S A GOD WHO LOVES YOU.
• 08:57 IF YOU'VE MADE A WRECK OF YOUR LIFE AND YOU'RE A BROKEN HUMAN BEING,
• 09:01 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT GOD IS A HEALER.
• 09:04 HE PROMISES HERE THAT THERE'S A FLOW THAT COMES FROM THIS PLACE THAT HEALS BROKENNESS.
• 09:12 PARCHED TONGUES ARE FED, THE THIRSTY HAVE DRINK.
• 09:17 ISAIAH THE PROPHET SAID, THOSE THAT THIRST COME TO THE WATERS AND HE WHO HAS NO MONEY,
• 09:22 COME BY AND EAT AND COME AND DRINK AND THERE'S FOOD FOR WEIRY SOULS.
• 09:29 I BELIEVE THIS FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.
• 09:32 AND FROM THIS PLACE I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT GOD WANTS TO GET INTO YOUR SPACE,
• 09:36 IF HE STANDS OF THE DOOR AND KNOCKS.
• 09:39 AND IF YOU'D OPEN UP THE DOOR, THERE'S A WHOLE LIFE THAT'S AVAILABLE TO YOU.
• 09:44 WELL WE'VE TALKED ABOUT YOU, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE JEWS.
• 09:48 IN THIS SERIES WE'VE LOOKED AT EZEKIEL AND THE MID EAST PIECE PROCESS.
• 09:53 GOD'S GONNA HAVE HIS WAY ON PLANET EARTH ONE DAY, MAYBE HAVE HIS WAY IN YOU TODAY.
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• 12:15 8 PROGRAMS.
• 12:17 TALKS ABOUT BIBLICAL VIEW ON CURRENT NEWS THROUGH THE EYES OF EZEKIEL.
• 12:22 EZEKIEL AND THE MID EAST PIECE PROCESS.
• 12:24 YOU CAN GET MORE OF THAT LATER.
• 12:26 IT'S A GOOD PROGRAM, ISN'T IT?
• 12:27 IT'S A GOOD PROGRAM.
• 12:29 THE SERIES HAS BEEN REALLY GOOD, JEFF.
• 12:30 8 SERIES, 8 PROGRAMS.
• 12:32 WE TALK ABOUT GOOD NEWS AND IT IS GOOD NEWS.
• 12:35 WE HAVE HOPE.
• 12:36 YES AND WE NEED GOOD NEWS IN A BAD NEWS WORLD.
• 12:41 SO MANY ARE DISCOURAGED, BUT I WANT YOU TO BE ENCOURAGED.
• 12:45 EZEKIEL DID.
• 12:46 EZEKIEL DIDN'T GO OUT ON A DOUBTFUL NOTE.
• 12:49 HE TALKED ABOUT GOD'S RESTORATION, PROSPERITY, PLENTY, HOPE, AND HEALING.
• 12:55 SO ON WE GO TO EZEKIEL'S STORY AND WE WANT HIS STORY TO BE YOUR STORY.
• 13:00 AS WE CONSIDER GOD'S PLAN TO REJUVENATE PLANET EARTH.
• 13:08 EZEKIEL'S VISION OF A LIFE GIVING RIVER THAT FLOWS FROM A FUTURE TEMPLE.
• 13:14 IT WAS A RIVER THAT I COULD NOT PASS OVER, FOR THE WATERS WERE RISEN, WATERS TO SWIM IN.
• 13:22 A RIVER THAT COULD NOT BE PASSED THROUGH.
• 13:28 JUDEA WAS AN AGRARIAN SOCIETY
• 13:30 AND JUDAH'S RABBI'S ENVISIONED THAT
• 13:33 THE MESSIANIC ERA WOULD COME REPLETE WITH
• 13:34 VERDANT PASTURE LAND.
• 13:37 THE GARDENS WOULD BE OVERFLOWING WITH ENORMOUS FRUIT.
• 13:41 AND THAT'S JUST NOT THE WILD IMAGINATIONS OF JUDAISM SAGES,
• 13:45 BECAUSE EZEKIEL ENVISIONED THAT AT DAYS' END, HERE FROM JERUSALEM THE TEMPLE WOULD BE REBUILT
• 13:52 AND HE SAD THAT WATER WOULD FLOW FROM THE TEMPLE AND STREAMS WOULD GUSH FORTH
• 13:58 AND THE BANKS WOULD BE LINED BY TREES THAT WOULD BRING FORTH FRUIT,
• 14:04 NOT JUST SEASONALLY, BUT MONTHLY.
• 14:07 BIG, PLUMP, JUICY FRUITS AND THIS REFLECTS AN ERA WHERE GOD'S HOUSE IS REBUILT,
• 14:14 WHERE GOD'S WILL AND HIS WAYS ARE MANIFEST AFRESH ON THE EARTH.
• 14:18 AND AS A RESULT THERE'S BOUNTY PLENTY.
• 14:21 EZEKIEL TOLD THAT STORY AND HE WASN'T ALONE.
• 14:24 ISAIAH IN HIS OWN WAY IN THE 2ND CHAPTER SAID,
• 14:28 "IN THE LATTER DAYS THE LORD'S HOUSE WOULD BE MADE
• 14:31 GLORIOUS ON THIS MOUNTAIN."
• 14:34 AND AFTER THAT THERE'S SOMETHING ISAIAH SAID
• 14:36 THAT'S REPEATED IN SYNAGOGUES EVERY WEEK ALL OVER THE WORLD.
• 14:41 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 14:48 THAT THE LAW WILL GO FORTH FROM JUDAH
• 14:53 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD WILL GO FORTH FROM ZION,
• 14:57 FROM JUDAH AS WELL.
• 14:59 WHAT A STORY!
• 15:00 ISAIAH SAW IT IN HIS DAY AND TOLD IT IN HIS WAY AND EZEKIEL SAW IT AS WELL.
• 15:07 BUT BEFORE EZEKIEL SAW THE GOOD NEWS EZEKIEL SAW BAD NEWS.
• 15:14 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 15:15 BECAUSE EZEKIEL BEGAN AS A REFUGEE.
• 15:19 HE WAS EXILED, HE WAS A DISPLACED PERSON AND IF YOU'VE EVER EXPERIENCED DIVORCE
• 15:26 AND YOU'VE LOOKED AT THE WORLD WITH UNCERTAINTY,
• 15:28 IF YOU'VE LOST A JOB, YOU'VE LOOKED AT THE WORLD WITH UNCERTAINTY,
• 15:32 IF YOU'VE LOST LIMB YOU'VE LOST HEALTH AND YOU'VE LOOKED AT THE WORLD WITH UNCERTAINTY,
• 15:38 THEN YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS TO BE IN DESPAIR.
• 15:41 EZEKIEL IN HIS OWN WAY WAS THERE, HE WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM JUDAH, WITH SOME 10,000 OTHERS,
• 15:48 DISPLACED TAKEN OFF INTO CAPTIVITY.
• 15:50 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 15:52 BECAUSE FOR A LENGTHY SEASON, JUDAH WAS SINNING.
• 15:57 JUDAH HAD TURNED THEIR BACK FROM GOD AND PROPHETS CAME TO TELL THEM TO MEND THEIR WAYS,
• 16:04 BUT THE PEOPLE WOULDN'T HEAR IT.
• 16:06 THE NET RESULT IS THAT JUDGEMENT WAS DECREED.
• 16:09 AND SO EZEKIEL WAS SWEPT UP IN FORCES BEYOND HIS CONTROL.
• 16:15 TAKEN OFF INTO JUDGMENT.
• 16:17 BUT THERE HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY FROM JUDAH,
• 16:22 THOUGH HE WAS AWAY FROM GOD'S LAND HE WASN'T AWAY FROM GOD AND GOD WASN'T AWAY FROM HIM.
• 16:29 AND WHY DO I SAY THAT?
• 16:31 BECAUSE HE SAYS THAT.
• 16:32 IN EZEKIEL CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1:
• 16:45 HE SAW VISIONS OF GOD.
• 16:47 GOD'S HAND WAS ON HIS LIFE AND GOD TOOK HIM PLACES,
• 16:51 HE CAUSED HIM TO SEE THINGS AND KNOW THINGS THAT WERE HIDDEN FROM HUMAN'S EYES.
• 16:56 AND HENCE EZEKIEL WAS A PROPHET, A GREAT PROPHET.
• 17:03 HE DIDN'T JUST SPEAK TO HIS GENERATION, HE SPOKE TO OURS.
• 17:09 AND WHEN WE SPEAK OF EZEKIEL AND THE MID EAST PIECE PROCESS,
• 17:15 AND IF WE ASK THE QUESTION OF EZEKIEL WHAT PIECES ARE TO BE PUT IN PLACE
• 17:22 IN ADVANCE OF GOD'S TAKING HOLD OF THIS PLACE, PLANET EARTH?
• 17:28 EZEKIEL TELLS US EXPLICITLY, IMPORTANTLY ISRAEL IS RECONSTITUTED AS A NATIONSTATE.
• 17:37 HE TELLS US THAT NATIONS ROUND ABOUT, HOWEVER, ARE HELLBENT ON ISRAEL'S DEMISE.
• 17:45 EZEKIEL SPEAKS PROPHETIC WORDS INVECTIVE AGAINST PEOPLE ROUND ABOUT.
• 17:52 HE SPEAKS OF AMMON, MOAB, AND EDOM,
• 17:57 WHICH WOULD BE MODERN JORDAN DOWN IN SAUDIA ARABIA TO THE TIP.
• 18:01 HE SPEAKS OF GAZA, PHILISTIA WHICH WOULD BE THE GAZA STRIP OF TODAY.
• 18:05 HE SPEAKS OF TYRE AND SIDON THIS WOULD BE IN MODERN LEBANON.
• 18:10 HE SURVEYS THE NATION ROUND ABOUT AND HE SAY'S JUDGMENT.
• 18:14 HE SPEAKS OF (HEBREW) TO THE WEST AND SAYS JUDGMENT.
• 18:18 HE TALKS OF PERSIA, MODERN IRAN TO THE EAST AND HE SAYS JUDGMENT.
• 18:25 THE PROPHET SAYS ISRAEL IS RECONSTITUTED AS A NATIONSTATE
• 18:30 AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH ALL OF THAT HE GIVES VOICE TO POWERS ROUND ABOUT
• 18:36 MOBILIZING THEIR ENERGIES
• 18:38 BENT ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NATIONSTATE OF ISRAEL THAT'S RECONSTITUTED.
• 18:45 AND FRIENDS THAT'S A STORY NOT JUST FROM HIS DAY, BUT THAT'S A STORY FOR OUR OWN.
• 18:52 AND IN AS MUCH AS EZEKIEL SAW A BAD MOON RISING FROM THE NORTH
• 18:58 AND IN AS MUCH AS IN CAHOOTS WITH THAT HE SEES MONUMENTAL FORCES FROM THE EAST,
• 19:05 FROM PERSIA.
• 19:06 OH FRIENDS WE CAN SEE THIS AS A RUSSIAN AND IRANIAN CONFEDERACY.
• 19:12 AND THESE COURSES ARE BROUGHT INTO THE REGION FOR A CLIMACTIC BATTLE.
• 19:18 SO MUCH FOR THE BAD NEWS AND NOW FOR THE GOOD.
• 19:23 GOD WINS.
• 19:27 AND HE WINS BIG IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE WORLD MIGHT KNOW HIM.
• 19:34 AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE KNOWING HERE IN JERUSALEM THE TEMPLE IS REBUILT
• 19:39 AND FROM THAT TEMPLE GOD'S WORD, HIS WILL, AND HIS WAYS ARE MADE KNOWN,
• 19:45 FINALLY AND FULLY ON PLANET EARTH.
• 19:49 REGARDING THAT REBUILT TEMPLE WE'RE TOLD IN CHAPTER 47, VERSE 1:
• 19:57 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
• 20:02 AND HE BROUGHT ME BACK TO THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE.
• 20:07 THIS VISIONARY, THIS PROPHET IN THE SPIRIT IS TAKEN TO YERUSHALAYIM, TO JERUSALEM,
• 20:15 TO THE TEMPLE AND HE'S BROUGHT TO THE HOUSE.
• 20:17 AND WHAT DOES HE SEE?
• 20:19 WELL JEWS SAY (SPEAKING HEBREW) AND A GREAT MIRACLE HAPPENED THERE.
• 20:24 WHAT DOES HE SEE?
• 20:25 HE SEES (HEBREW) HE SEES WATERS SPRINGING FORTH.
• 20:30 THE JERUSALEM TEMPLE IS ENVISIONED AS A GUSHER,
• 20:33 WATERS ARE COMING OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN AND THEIR SPREADING TO THE EAST
• 20:37 AND THEY'RE FLOWING DOWN THE ARID, DRY, LIFELESS JUDEAN HILLS MAKING IT GREEN, LUSH, VERDANT.
• 20:47 THOSE HEALING WATERS MAKE THEIR WAY DOWN TO THE DEAD SEA
• 20:51 AND THE DEAD SEA BECOMES THE ONCE DEAD SEA.
• 20:55 AND WHY IS THAT?
• 20:57 BECAUSE IN THE REJUVENATION GOD MAKES THINGS DEAD TO LIVE.
• 21:02 IT'S A STORY, EZEKIEL TOLD IT HIS WAY, IT'S A STORY THAT SEEMS TO BE UNFOLDING IN OUR DAY
• 21:10 AND WE'LL LOOK AT THAT STORY SOME MORE AS WE LOOK AT
• 21:12 EZEKIEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST PIECE PROCESS.
• 21:21 MUSIC
• 22:28 WELL THE MUSIC WAS BEAUTIFUL, WASN'T IT?
• 22:31 AND THE STORY OF EZEKIEL IS MOVING, ISN'T IT?
• 22:35 AND WHAT DO WE LEARN WHEN WE CONSIDER THE MAN AND HIS MESSAGE?
• 22:39 EZEKIEL WAS A FELLOW WHO WAS A REFUGEE.
• 22:43 HE WAS IN A REFUGEE CAMP, DISPIRITED WAS HE ALONG WITH THE OTHERS
• 22:48 THAT WERE TAKEN AWAY FROM JUDEA AT A TIME WHEN THE WORLD WENT BAD.
• 22:53 AND THERE THEY WERE IN DESPAIR.
• 22:56 THEY HAD REAPED A HARVEST, THEY HAD SOWN INIQUITY, AND THEY REAPED IT.
• 23:03 AND OFF THEY WENT.
• 23:05 AND AS FAR AS JERUSALEM GOES, DOWN SHE WENT.
• 23:09 JUDGMENT WAS METED OUT.
• 23:11 THE TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED.
• 23:14 PEOPLE WERE BESTED WITH DESPAIR, DECAY AND DISORIENTATION.
• 23:19 THE FORTUNATE ONES THAT IS, MOST DIED.
• 23:23 BUT THE STEDFAST LOVE OF THE LORD NEVER CEASES
• 23:27 AND IN EZEKIEL WE LEARNED HOW GOD FULLY INTENDS TO RESTORE HIS PEOPLE.
• 23:33 IN EZEKIEL WE LEARNED AS WELL THAT GOD HAS A DAY ON THE CALENDAR
• 23:38 TO BRING JUDGEMENT TO BEAR AGAINST THOSE GIVEN TO BESTING JUDAH.
• 23:44 AND SO WE SEE JUDGMENT METED OUT AGAINST THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT JUDAH.
• 23:49 AND NOT ONLY THOSE IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY,
• 23:52 BUT EZEKIEL TELLS US AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF TIME FORCES MARSHALED FROM THE NORTH,
• 23:59 WHICH LOOK A LOT LIKE THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND FORCES MARSHALED FROM PERSIA
• 24:05 WHICH SMELLS A WHOLE LOT LIKE IRAN, THEY COLLIDE, THEY COMBINE
• 24:09 AND BRING FORCES TO BEAR IN JUDAH FOR A CLIMACTIC BATTLE.
• 24:15 WE LEARN IN EZEKIEL, HOWEVER, THAT GOD SHOWS UP AND PEOPLE ARE FORCED TO OWN UP FOR THEIR SINS.
• 24:21 AND AT THE END OF THE DAY WE SEE GOD COMING AND RESCUING HIS VANQUISHED PEOPLE.
• 24:27 AND THEN WE SEE A WORLD RESTORED.
• 24:30 GOOD NEWS INDEED.
• 24:31 HOPE FOR MODERN MAN AS THE MESSIAH COMES A 2ND TIME.
• 24:36 HE MAKES HIS ENTRANCE ONTO THE STAGE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA
• 24:41 AND GET'S BACK A WORLD GONE BAD SINCE EDEN.
• 24:44 WHAT A STORY ISN'T IT?
• 24:45 IT'S A GREAT STORY.
• 24:46 SO THEY SHALL THAT I AM THEIR LORD.
• 24:50 65 TIMES GOD SAYS THIS IN EZEKIEL,
• 24:53 "SO THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM LORD."
• 24:56 NOT ONLY DOES ISRAEL KNOW THEIR LORD,
• 24:58 BUT THAT THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT KNOW WHO GOD IS.
• 25:01 IT'S FASCINATING THAT GOD MANIFESTS HIS WAYS AT THE END OF DAYS
• 25:05 THROUGH WHAT HE DOES WITH ISRAEL.
• 25:08 ALWAYS.
• 25:08 ISRAEL IS THE TIMECLOCK.
• 25:10 ISRAEL IS THE PROPHECY TIMECLOCK FOR ME.
• 25:12 ALWAYS HAS BEEN,
• 25:14 PROBABLY WILL ALWAYS BE THE TIMECLOCK.
• 25:15 BUT EZEKIEL, I THINK, HOW WOULD YOU FEEL
• 25:18 BEING EZEKIEL KNOWING THAT GOD
• 25:21 HAS PROPHESIED THROUGH YOU
• 25:22 AND HERE YOU'RE HAVING TO DELIVER BAD NEWS,
• 25:25 BUT THEN YOU ALSO DELIVER THE GOOD NEWS?
• 25:27 I THINK THAT IS ENCOURAGING FOR ALL OF US.
• 25:29 I THINK THE DRY BONES VISION
• 25:31 FOR ME STANDS OUT IN MY MIND MORE THAN ANYTHING,
• 25:34 I GUESS BECAUSE I'M A VISUAL LEARNER.
• 25:36 SO I LIKE TO SEE THAT VISUAL OF ISRAEL STANDING UP,
• 25:40 THEN I THINK ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
• 25:42 AND HOW THEY'VE REALLY COME OUT OF THE ASHES,
• 25:45 HOW THOSE BONES WERE THERE.
• 25:48 AND NOW THEY ARE A NATION.
• 25:49 BEN GURION,
• 25:50 TALKING ABOUT ISRAEL BEING A STATE.
• 25:52 THEY HAVE COME FROM NOTHING.
• 25:55 DOWN IN THE ASHES AND BACK UP.
• 25:57 YES MY MOTHER WAS SMUGGLED OUT OF NAZZI GERMANY
• 25:59 AND I'M OF THE NEXT GENERATION.
• 26:01 ALL OF US JEWS ARE OF THAT ILK.
• 26:03 WE'VE ALL BEEN SO AFFECTED.
• 26:05 AND WE'VE LEARNED AS WELL OF ABOUT A GOOD GOD WHO REDEEMS
• 26:09 WHAT THE DEVIL WAS MINDED TO DESTROY.
• 26:11 AND YOU CAN BELIEVE WHAT THIS BOOK SAYS.
• 26:13 GOD DID EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO AND HE DID IT.
• 26:17 YES AND AT THE RISK OF BEING REDUNDANT
• 26:20 IF YOU'VE FOLLOWED US IN THIS SERIES YOU'VE HEARD ME TO BREAK AWAY
• 26:23 AND SAY THAT WHAT GOD DOES FOR JEWS HE WANTS TO DO FOR ALL OF YOUS.
• 26:28 THERE'S A PLAN ON THE TABLE TO RESTORE YOU AND BRING YOU BACK TO LIFE.
• 26:33 THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THIS SERIES.
• 26:35 AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:36 SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
• 26:38 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.