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• 00:01 ♪♪♪
• 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots,"
• 00:05 with insightful Bible teaching from Israel
• 00:08 by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:09 This week, we look at the northern kingdom of Israel in
• 00:12 a time of growth but then later in a time of calamity,
• 00:15 next on "Kings and Kingdoms."
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• 01:09 David: Thank you for joining us today.
• 01:10 I'm David Hart.
• 01:12 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart. Jeffrey Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:15 People turn on television, they want to see good news.
• 01:17 I get that.
• 01:19 But sometimes we look and it's not so good.
• 01:21 Case in point: some of these ancient leaders in Israel have
• 01:25 a lot to be desired, yes?
• 01:27 David: Leaders: this whole series is about leadership.
• 01:30 Can you define that?
• 01:32 Jeffrey: Well, in so many ways, you know,
• 01:34 I look at leadership.
• 01:35 There's a difference between a politician and a pastor.
• 01:38 But at the end of the day, leaders should use their
• 01:40 influence to help move the organization forward in a way
• 01:44 that fulfills its objectives.
• 01:46 And we just don't see that happening very well, sadly,
• 01:49 at this moment in time in Israel.
• 01:51 Kirsten: And in this part of the series,
• 01:53 the kingdoms are divided.
• 01:55 We have the ten tribes in the north, two in the south.
• 01:57 And we're talking more about the north today.
• 01:59 Jeffrey: Yes, the ancient kingdom I should say, just
• 02:02 to reiterate, and I'm not critiquing so much the modern
• 02:05 moment in Israeli politics but in antiquity it's really
• 02:09 deteriorating on the quick.
• 02:12 David: A lot of evil in the sight of God?
• 02:15 Jeffrey: Yes, in fact, it says as much explicitly in the
• 02:18 book of Kings and interestingly, evil is the word live
• 02:20 spelled backwards.
• 02:22 It's all upside down in so many ways.
• 02:24 Kirsten: It is, it's sad to see,
• 02:27 but that was--it was a lot-- I think that the kings
• 02:30 were supposed to be God's voice and also rule the people.
• 02:35 That's a lot for a single person, yes?
• 02:38 Jeffrey: Yes, to be sure but people can have character.
• 02:41 The lack thereof leads in a bad way, and we see it
• 02:44 at play in the literature.
• 02:46 Kirsten: We'll hear all about that today.
• 02:47 Jeffrey: We will.
• 02:49 David: Actually, right now, let's go to Israel
• 02:50 with Dr. Seif's teaching.
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• 03:05 Jeffrey: It's not that the biblical author gave him a pass,
• 03:09 but he definitely passed through note of his indiscretions,
• 03:14 which were egregious in order to give him credit.
• 03:20 What am I talking about?
• 03:21 I don't want to play my hand just yet, but I want to say that
• 03:25 the story had to do with where we are right now.
• 03:31 Adjacent to me is Jericho.
• 03:33 We're right there at the lowest part of the earth.
• 03:36 Jordan is not far away.
• 03:38 Saudi Arabia is south.
• 03:40 You go up the Judean foothills which are adjacent to me,
• 03:44 you get to Jerusalem.
• 03:46 This is border land, and it was a significant border.
• 03:52 When Israel broke away from Judah, they established this
• 03:58 as a border outpost.
• 04:01 It was significant.
• 04:02 You had to control this in order to control the gateway
• 04:06 to Jerusalem.
• 04:08 It was very important.
• 04:09 You needed to control this in order to stave off assault from
• 04:13 others that are coming to you down through the Judean
• 04:16 wilderness or across the Jordan.
• 04:19 This was an important place.
• 04:22 Now, the reason why I'm developing this border land is
• 04:25 because, as we'll see when I open up the Bible, the author in
• 04:30 Kings is fully aware of the fact that the king in view today,
• 04:34 Jeroboam, was a sinner.
• 04:37 He was bad to the bone, just like the man he was named after.
• 04:40 And he says as much, that this Jeroboam II who's the object of
• 04:44 our attention here, was following the footsteps of
• 04:47 Jeroboam I who was the worst of the worst in Israelite history.
• 04:51 But he credits him with something instead of defaming
• 04:55 him and what does he credit him for?
• 04:57 Oh, listen to me.
• 04:58 This is so interesting, it is so appropriate,
• 05:00 it so speaks to the moment.
• 05:02 He credits him with securing the border of Israel,
• 05:08 something that he adjudged to be very important.
• 05:12 I want to look at the book, I want to apply it to the moment
• 05:16 here as we continue on in our story looking
• 05:19 at "Kings and Kingdoms."
• 05:21 Come on with me to the Bible.
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• 05:27 Jeffrey: For me, it really was something
• 05:29 of an ah-ha moment.
• 05:31 Not the first part of it.
• 05:33 In 2 Kings chapter 14, verse 24, he says
• 05:36 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 05:38 "And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord."
• 05:41 I mean, I say that expression so much in the series, you might
• 05:45 think it's the only thing I know how to say in Hebrew.
• 05:47 It's just that it's attached to so many people
• 05:50 that they did evil.
• 05:52 And then there's some development to the evil
• 05:54 but subsequent to this, it's not developed.
• 05:56 You go on, never mind verse 24 I just read.
• 05:59 If you look in verse 25 he gets a credit which
• 06:02 is then explored and amplified.
• 06:06 I'll read it in mine:
• 06:08 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 06:11 "He restored the border of Israel."
• 06:15 And it goes on then from the entrance down to the Arabah,
• 06:18 which is where we are right now, the Arabah, the drylands.
• 06:22 As I said at the outset here, we're right at the border and
• 06:26 this is a king who's noted for establishing and for securing
• 06:31 a border right here and relative to borders when you go on,
• 06:36 before we get to when he gives up the ghost, when the author
• 06:41 speaks more about him, he notes cities that were established
• 06:44 to expand the borders.
• 06:47 It's interesting, this is one who's noted
• 06:49 for his accomplishments.
• 06:51 His perfidy, his religious faithlessness, is noted,
• 06:55 but he's credited with securing Israel.
• 06:58 Now, what do I want to do with this?
• 07:01 I think it so much speaks to a moment, and I say that
• 07:05 because I know that in my culture there's all kinds
• 07:09 of concerns about border, and I get that.
• 07:11 What I find here is those who attend to the border
• 07:15 and secure it are noteworthy.
• 07:17 Again, it's not that he's given a pass for all else that was
• 07:20 wrong with him, but he's credited with it and against
• 07:23 that backdrop, if I speak of biblical faith and virtue,
• 07:28 for a leader to establish the boundaries,
• 07:30 for a king to establish the boundaries of his kingdom,
• 07:33 offends no biblical religion.
• 07:36 That's what is to be expected.
• 07:38 Now, that said, I think in my culture, America, and I know
• 07:42 this goes, you know, beyond the continental United States
• 07:45 to different parts of the world, I know that because someone
• 07:47 reminded me of that when they came up to me from Australia
• 07:50 this morning when I went down to breakfast at the hotel.
• 07:53 I know it gets around.
• 07:55 But I know in my culture, you know, America has thousands
• 07:58 of miles of border with ocean, with the Atlantic and Pacific,
• 08:01 we're not worried about getting attacked by whales.
• 08:04 Canada hasn't been a problem and really, until recently,
• 08:08 Central and South America hasn't been an issue.
• 08:10 Now, an invasion is less to do about wars as it is to do with
• 08:14 desperate people and that raises the issue in my generation and
• 08:19 in this particular moment about what to do about borders.
• 08:22 Is it okay to secure them?
• 08:26 Listen, I don't find it the least bit beyond the pale of
• 08:29 reason to secure borders.
• 08:31 On the way to this location, we passed some villas, and I
• 08:35 couldn't help but note they had walls around them to make sure
• 08:37 the only people that got in were those who were invited in.
• 08:40 We do that.
• 08:42 We lock our cars at night to make sure that no one gets in
• 08:44 who doesn't own it.
• 08:45 We lock our homes to ensure that no one gets in there that
• 08:48 doesn't belong there.
• 08:49 For us to do that with the national home doesn't bother me.
• 08:52 I advocate personally for just and equitable policies.
• 08:57 We want to find ways to help the disenfranchised.
• 08:59 There's a way to do it legally, there's a way
• 09:02 to do it that's secure.
• 09:04 To me, it makes no sense.
• 09:05 I know these people that talk about sanctuary cities.
• 09:08 We defy law to let everyone and anyone go there with the promise
• 09:12 that we won't touch them for being there.
• 09:14 That, to me, might sound like virtue but to me,
• 09:18 it's absolute insanity.
• 09:20 For my money, and you can feel free to disagree.
• 09:23 Maybe I'll get some mail. What of it?
• 09:25 Can't please everyone.
• 09:27 But for my money, when I look at kings, when I look at kingdoms,
• 09:30 when I look at the nation state here, to me, I found it
• 09:33 interesting that one man who used his efforts to secure
• 09:38 the borders is noted in a positive way for so doing.
• 09:43 I say let's find leaders in our culture that will do just that.
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• 10:00 Jeffrey: When the Parthians invaded the North,
• 10:02 they killed his brother Faisal.
• 10:05 Herod, for his part, ran and deposited his family not far
• 10:08 from here at a place called Masada and then ran off to Egypt
• 10:13 to secure some help.
• 10:15 When he didn't get it he went to Rome where he was affirmed
• 10:17 as the king of Judea.
• 10:20 And he was something to be reckoned with
• 10:22 at some point in time.
• 10:24 This is one of a number of his palaces but you know what, just
• 10:27 like his name and his kingdom, his famous palace came to ruin.
• 10:33 And so it is, I'm reminded of Yeshua, of Jesus, who once said
• 10:37 to seek first God's kingdom and his righteousness, and then
• 10:42 everything else will be added unto you.
• 10:45 What most people do by way of contradistinction is they seek
• 10:49 first their own kingdom and they disregard righteousness and only
• 10:54 discover that the things they gather to themselves wind up
• 10:57 getting away from them.
• 11:00 We're going to look at a story in the Bible in this segment
• 11:04 where there was one king in particular who came.
• 11:07 He was one of a number of kings, and he was the last
• 11:11 of a dynasty.
• 11:13 The whole world fell apart, and we're going to look
• 11:16 at that story and see what we can learn from it.
• 11:18 Come on with me.
• 11:20 We're going to take a look at the book.
• 11:25 Jeffrey: Those who rely on the dint of their own
• 11:29 determination wind up standing alone in life and why is that?
• 11:33 Because they're principally all about themselves and so they
• 11:37 stand alone, as opposed to being interconnected with others.
• 11:41 And so it is with the pursuit and acquisition of power.
• 11:45 In order to get it, you conspire and betray.
• 11:48 Once you get it, you can't trust those in proximity to you
• 11:52 because you know they're just like you.
• 11:55 I mention that because we're at the ragged edge of biblical
• 11:58 history now for the kingdom of Israel.
• 12:00 In fact, the last of the kings, his name was Hoshea and in
• 12:04 chapter 15 we're told, "Hoshea made a conspiracy against Pekah,
• 12:11 the son of Remaliah, and he smote him, and he slew him."
• 12:18 And isn't that so much how the game is played
• 12:21 in the world called politics?
• 12:24 People knock the legs out from underneath others and advance
• 12:28 their own cause.
• 12:30 We'll see here it leads to no good end because once you live
• 12:33 by the sword, you die by the sword.
• 12:35 When you look in chapter 17 of the same book, that is 2 Kings,
• 12:39 we're told: "The king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel
• 12:46 away unto Assyria."
• 12:49 And with that one sentence, the nation state of Israel flies
• 12:56 into an incinerator, never to recover again.
• 13:01 In proximity to that statement is a laundry list of the
• 13:05 northern kingdom's sins.
• 13:08 It wasn't just that Hoshea wasn't cut from the right cloth
• 13:12 and was stealthy and acquired the kingdom unacceptably.
• 13:16 He came in a long line of those who did just that.
• 13:20 Their kingdoms do not stand.
• 13:23 There were nine dynasties that had risen and fallen
• 13:25 in the northern kingdom of Israel.
• 13:28 Finally, then the whole kingdom falls.
• 13:30 Assyria overruns them, takes them off into captivity
• 13:34 and that's the end of that.
• 13:36 So much for biblical history.
• 13:38 What can we learn from that?
• 13:42 Oh, you know when it comes to power, they're called debates,
• 13:46 and a lot of that is just knocking the legs out from
• 13:49 underneath the other to show yourself to be better
• 13:52 than the other.
• 13:54 Personally, I would suggest that we look at deeds not at creeds.
• 14:01 There's a verse in Proverbs that says the child makes himself
• 14:04 known by his acts.
• 14:07 I'm interested in what a person does before they come to the
• 14:09 presidential debates, you know, the mayoral debates, the city
• 14:14 council debates or whatever it is they're talking about.
• 14:17 Who is that person?
• 14:19 And if I learned anything from my assessment of kings
• 14:22 and kingdoms, advanced herein is the idea that those
• 14:28 who live righteously enjoy success in life.
• 14:33 Conversely, those who are nefarious, that is evil, and the
• 14:37 word evil is the word live spelled backwards.
• 14:40 They pretend to be advocating for life, l'chaim,
• 14:43 but at the end of the day it leads to death.
• 14:46 Those who live with the wrong ideas end in ruin,
• 14:51 and I'm telling you that from this place, a ruin
• 14:54 of a once great monarch here in the land of Israel.
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• 15:05 Jeffrey: Our creator chose certain places on the planet to
• 15:08 reveal himself and his message of redemption to us.
• 15:13 Mount Sinai, Moriah, Olives, the Mount of Beatitudes,
• 15:17 as well as various seas, rivers, and deserts.
• 15:20 These were the places.
• 15:22 Some are now only ruins, yet they continue to tell
• 15:25 of the Lord's faithfulness and love.
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• 16:36 Sarah Liberman: Shalom haverim.
• 16:38 Welcome to our series on exploring the words in Hebrew
• 16:42 for worship and praise.
• 16:44 I am so excited as a worship leader to explore this with you
• 16:48 because I know that when you adopt these words into your
• 16:51 lifestyle of worship it will truly transform your life.
• 16:55 Now, in English, we primarily use the words praise
• 16:58 and worship, but in Hebrew whenever we see
• 17:01 this word praise, there's actually so many other words
• 17:05 with so much more meaning.
• 17:07 Now look at this word today.
• 17:09 Our word is tehillot.
• 17:11 It comes from that root word hallel
• 17:14 that we already looked at.
• 17:16 But tehillot has a beautiful meaning.
• 17:18 It means to sing a song, a new song, a spontaneous song,
• 17:23 to the Lord.
• 17:25 Have you ever tried singing a song to God,
• 17:27 maybe just in the car or in the house by yourself?
• 17:31 Maybe it's words that you've never heard before
• 17:34 but they're the words of your heart.
• 17:36 I want to tell you that when you just sing a melody to the Lord,
• 17:39 when you sing your own words to the King of kings,
• 17:43 it blesses his heart.
• 17:45 There is this incredible verse in Psalms.
• 17:48 It says, "God dwells in the praises of Israel."
• 17:52 In Hebrew it says
• 17:54 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 17:57 which means he actually inhabits.
• 17:59 In English, we translated it enthroned in your praises.
• 18:03 But I love this word dwells because it means that we can be
• 18:08 in the presence of God, in the true presence of God,
• 18:12 when we worship him.
• 18:14 So as you go about your week this week, I want to encourage
• 18:17 you, take some time, maybe when you're all by yourself,
• 18:22 to praise God, maybe sing a new song to him,
• 18:26 whatever comes to your heart.
• 18:28 Sing it unto him.
• 18:30 I promise you the presence of God is going to come and fill
• 18:34 you in that moment because the Bible promises us
• 18:38 that God dwells in the praises of his people.
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• 18:48 ♪♪♪
• 18:53 ♪ We like sheep have gone astray ♪
• 18:59 ♪ everyone to his own way ♪
• 19:05 ♪ But you alone took the blame ♪
• 19:11 ♪ and now we ask in your holy name ♪
• 19:18 ♪ We like sheep have gone astray ♪
• 19:24 ♪ everyone to his own way ♪
• 19:30 ♪ But you alone took the blame ♪
• 19:36 ♪ and now we ask in your holy name ♪
• 19:48 ♪ Yeshua, return unto our father ♪
• 19:55 ♪ Yeshua, return to us alone ♪
• 20:00 ♪ Yeshua, return unto Israel ♪
• 20:07 ♪ Yeshua, return unto your own ♪
• 20:13 ♪ Yeshua, return unto Israel ♪
• 20:19 ♪ Yeshua, return unto your own ♪♪
• 20:29 ♪♪♪
• 20:41 Jeffrey: I love listening to Dave and Kirsten
• 20:44 sing about Yeshua, the Jewish way to say Jesus.
• 20:50 I look at worship music as prayer put to music.
• 20:54 It ascends upward.
• 20:56 We're looking at a place now, tragically in biblical
• 20:58 literature, where things are descending downward.
• 21:02 We'll get to Yeshua, we'll get to Jesus, get an upswing,
• 21:05 but now we're looking at a downturn.
• 21:08 Dr. Baruch Kvasnica, well, about to be doctor, he is a professor,
• 21:14 and the leader of the Jerusalem Seminary, gives us some
• 21:18 perspective on Israel's demise in antiquity.
• 21:22 Let's go to that now.
• 21:25 Jeffrey: Baruch, in so many ways, the northern kingdom
• 21:27 was rotten at the core.
• 21:29 Eventually, it fell apart, did it not?
• 21:31 Baruch Kvasnica: It's very true.
• 21:33 In 2 Kings chapter 17, it shows that Hoshea, the king of Israel,
• 21:38 lost his mantle because he was following the customs
• 21:42 of other countries.
• 21:44 He just was not faithful, and he was allowing injustice to reign.
• 21:48 And because of that, God brought Samaria down.
• 21:51 Jeffrey: You know, and it's my concern that we have leaders
• 21:54 in culture that are following the gods of other cultures,
• 21:57 not Judeo-Christian values and ethics.
• 22:00 It can have the same consequence, do you think?
• 22:02 Baruch: It's true.
• 22:04 We had--we have evidence in Samaria of people really taking
• 22:06 on the culture of others and priding themselves on what they
• 22:11 had, what they contained, what they could showcase.
• 22:15 They were putting up ivory tusks in their lounge chairs,
• 22:20 in their furniture, and this was evil in the sight of the Lord.
• 22:24 They were spending it on themselves rather than
• 22:27 on the poor and the destitute.
• 22:29 Jeffrey: Yeah, the prophets spoke about these affluent sorts
• 22:32 on their ivory couches.
• 22:34 There's actual testimony to that effect, archeologically.
• 22:38 Have we found--have we unearthed some of that?
• 22:40 Baruch: That's right.
• 22:42 Just before Tiglath-Pileser III's conquest in the 735
• 22:45 and so there's a discovery that's been made.
• 22:47 The house of ivories with hundreds of pieces of ivory
• 22:50 discovered right there.
• 22:52 Beautiful carvings that show Venetian influence,
• 22:54 the customs of the pagans.
• 22:57 Jeffrey: You know, it reminds me, too,
• 22:59 America's a very affluent culture.
• 23:01 The northern kingdom was more affluent than the southern
• 23:03 kingdom; certainly, the pastor lands and--
• 23:05 but it got out of hand.
• 23:07 People get into their affluence, they forget the God
• 23:09 who gives it to 'em.
• 23:11 Baruch: Again, yes, they followed these other nations,
• 23:14 pagan authorities.
• 23:16 They allowed it to come into their hearts, be realized
• 23:20 in their stuff, and that was their downfall.
• 23:24 Jeffrey: Right, well, thank you for sharing, insightful.
• 23:27 Baruch: Thank you.
• 23:31 David: This whole series is like we're at a Bible college
• 23:35 desk with you, and we have Professor Baruch that shared
• 23:39 with us today, but we have the best professor at this desk.
• 23:43 Kirsten: Professor Seif.
• 23:45 Jeffrey: Well, flattery will get you everywhere.
• 23:46 Kirsten: Ha, ha, we're trying.
• 23:48 David: We're serious. We're learning so much.
• 23:49 What have we got here today?
• 23:51 Jeffrey: I appreciate that you like me.
• 23:53 I can assure you these guys don't.
• 23:54 These guys, I'm just not really super-duper impressed.
• 23:57 You know, Saul, not much there.
• 23:59 David, I loved him at the first, you know, but goodness,
• 24:02 I just can't get past Bathsheba and murder to cover it up.
• 24:06 And God forgave him, I know, his sons didn't,
• 24:08 but his kingdom didn't end well.
• 24:11 I give him a D.
• 24:13 Others might grade him a little higher, but again,
• 24:15 I just can't forgive him.
• 24:17 David: A man after God's own heart, wow.
• 24:19 Jeffrey: He was, and I don't expect perfection
• 24:21 til we get down here, when we're looking at Jesus, Yeshua.
• 24:25 And I see some others that are noteworthies as well,
• 24:28 but I'm a little harder on the guy, maybe, than most would be.
• 24:32 But Solomon, his son, starts off good but way too many women.
• 24:35 I'm just not going to walk past that.
• 24:39 And then after that, it's just a slew of Fs.
• 24:42 But by the time we get to the kings for today
• 24:44 in the northern kingdom, Jeroboam II, just an F.
• 24:49 I mean, he was evil.
• 24:51 The Bible says as much explicitly.
• 24:53 Hoshea, I mean, he's the last one.
• 24:57 He comes to power through murder.
• 24:59 Never mind a vote.
• 25:01 Today we have the opportunity to vote.
• 25:03 I mean, he stealthily seizes through intrigue and murder,
• 25:07 and this is happening in God's kingdom.
• 25:09 It just should not be.
• 25:11 Kirsten: Well, here's a question.
• 25:13 Is it Daniel 2, is it Daniel 2:20, where it says--
• 25:15 and I don't want to take it out of context,
• 25:17 that God appoints the kings?
• 25:20 Is that not correct?
• 25:21 Jeffrey: Yes, interestingly--
• 25:23 Kirsten: So we have all these F kings.
• 25:25 I mean, did God appoint these evil kings?
• 25:27 It's confusing to me.
• 25:29 Jeffrey: Well, first of all, in Daniel, it's a prophecy about
• 25:31 pagan kings that are going to be coming and going
• 25:35 to accomplish his purposes.
• 25:37 And they're going to judge Judah and Israel.
• 25:39 Here we're looking at the kings of Israel and Judah
• 25:43 and they don't come by divine appointment.
• 25:45 The only divine appointment
• 25:47 is through the line of David, arguably.
• 25:50 Kirsten: In the south?
• 25:52 Jeffrey: He was the one to the southern kingdom,
• 25:54 and it was anointed and appointed because
• 25:56 the ultimate king's going to come through that line.
• 25:58 If you look at the first words in the New Testament in Matthew:
• 26:03 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 26:07 "The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ,
• 26:10 the Son of David."
• 26:12 There, there's an anointed and appointed.
• 26:15 This, there's a whole lot of wickedness here that has nothing
• 26:17 to do with God's divine design.
• 26:19 Kirsten: And then this one is the perfect picture of what
• 26:21 everyone else should have been, obviously,
• 26:23 what we all should have been, or should be.
• 26:25 Jeffrey: You know, nobody's perfect, but we can get a whole
• 26:27 lot better, I think, and you know, there's core values
• 26:30 that are lacking.
• 26:32 I mean, there's decency that's lacking.
• 26:34 There's incongruity, you know, kings when they're coronated,
• 26:37 they say things and offer up prayers,
• 26:40 but they don't live it out.
• 26:41 That's tragic.
• 26:43 David: Little bit of pride there, maybe?
• 26:44 Jeffrey: A little--a lot of bit of pride, yeah.
• 26:46 But I'm looking for leadership
• 26:48 that has a little more core virtues.
• 26:50 Kirsten: There it is right there.
• 26:51 There's virtues, leadership.
• 26:53 How do we stay away from this in America?
• 26:57 How do we keep it pure?
• 26:59 We follow him, keep our heart pure, and be virtuous, right?
• 27:03 More next week?
• 27:04 Jeffrey: We all get a vote.
• 27:06 More next week to come as we look at the kings of Israel
• 27:10 and Judah.
• 27:11 Until then shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:14 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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