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Episode: “Royal Lineage”
From the Shrine of the Book museum in Jerusalem, Dr. Seif teaches from the writings of the prophet Isaiah. We examine how the Old Testament predicted a coming Davidic Son, which leads to the New Testament revealing the “Son of David”.
Series: “The Warrior King (2022)”
David-like Leadership for Goliath-like times
This series originally produced in 2009, Warrior King: David-like Leadership in Goliath-like Times, not only tells the story of King David’s time but also the story of our own time. With challenges larger than Goliath all around us, we need Bible-based leaders now more than ever. Dr. Jeffrey Seif taught this eight-part series from Israel. David and Kirsten Hart join Jeff in the studio for up-to-date analysis of each program’s teachings. We also get location reports from Chaim Malespin and hear the music of Zola Levitt.

Caption transcript for The Warrior King (2022): “Royal Lineage” (6/8)

  • 00:03 male announcer: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots," with insightful
  • 00:06 Bible teaching by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
  • 00:09 Today we look toward the ultimate
  • 00:11 son of David on "Warrior King."
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  • 01:02 David Hart: We are so glad you've joined us today.
  • 01:04 David: I'm David Hart. Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
  • 01:06 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And I am Jeffrey Seif.
  • 01:09 And we are going on a journey into the Older Testament.
  • 01:13 I remember years ago, someone opened up the Hebrew Bible and I
  • 01:17 saw Jesus in it and it was a fascinating moment.
  • 01:20 We want to give you some of that moment today, yes?
  • 01:22 Kirsten: Right, that King David was a
  • 01:23 prototype of Messiah.
  • 01:26 It's interesting to connect the dots from King David
  • 01:28 all the way down to Messiah.
  • 01:30 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and in fact, a good part of the Newer
  • 01:33 Testament just goes back and takes the
  • 01:35 Older Testament texts and brings them forward.
  • 01:38 And we see that at play.
  • 01:40 Certainly, David is a figure in the Older Testament
  • 01:43 but he emerges in the New.
  • 01:44 The first breath of the New Testament in the Matthean
  • 01:46 Gospel, Jesus is referenced as Ben-David, Ben-Avraham, the son
  • 01:52 of David, the son of Abraham: connects him right off the bat.
  • 01:54 Kirsten: Look at that, he was Jewish.
  • 01:56 Who knew?
  • 01:58 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Many people don't know.
  • 02:00 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: People forget. Kirsten: I know.
  • 02:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: People forget the--they don't look at
  • 02:03 the good news through the eyes of the Jews.
  • 02:04 Well, we're gonna get some people with Jewish eyes and
  • 02:07 we're gonna look at some of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • 02:09 Fascinating stuff.
  • 02:10 David: And I think you can even go to a museum
  • 02:12 today and see those scrolls, correct?
  • 02:13 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and the big Isaiah scroll
  • 02:15 is there as the centerpiece.
  • 02:17 Fascinating.
  • 02:19 David: We go now to our dramatic reenactment,
  • 02:21 filmed in Israel, followed by teaching from Dr. Seif.
  • 02:24 Let's go there now.
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  • 02:29 narrator: It was the 8th Century BC.
  • 02:32 The prophet Isaiah was troubled because the kingdom
  • 02:35 had become defiled by godless rulers.
  • 02:39 Surrounded by the ruthless and the wicked,
  • 02:42 he has a vision of a better day.
  • 02:45 He writes of a coming David-like king: "And there shall come
  • 02:50 forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
  • 02:53 and a branch out of his roots.
  • 02:56 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of
  • 03:01 wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the
  • 03:07 spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord."
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  • 03:22 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You are looking at one of the most
  • 03:25 fantastic finds in biblical archeology.
  • 03:32 In the '40s, a Bedouin discovered scrolls that hit the
  • 03:36 world by storm, and you're looking at a facsimile here.
  • 03:41 Actually, I am in the Shrine of the Book, and here we're looking
  • 03:46 at an ancient book, the book of Isaiah, copied by the
  • 03:51 sectaries at Qumran many years ago.
  • 03:56 Isaiah was a fascinating personality
  • 03:59 and he's worth considering when we consider
  • 04:03 David Melech Yisrael, David the king of Israel.
  • 04:08 Though Isaiah himself wasn't part of David's administration,
  • 04:12 actually he wished he was, and the reason why is because Isaiah
  • 04:18 made his entrance onto the stage of the human drama during the
  • 04:22 administration of Uzziah, a king who started off
  • 04:26 good enough but a king who went bad.
  • 04:30 He went south.
  • 04:32 Isaiah saw his demise and it's recorded in the
  • 04:35 book of Kings and the book of Chronicles.
  • 04:38 Not only is it recorded, but it said as much that Isaiah was the
  • 04:43 historian that talked about the demise of Judah under Uzziah's
  • 04:49 ministration, and it's perhaps for that reason when Isaiah
  • 04:53 began his prophetic administration,
  • 04:57 he spoke to the prophetic first.
  • 04:59 You can't read the first five chapters of Isaiah without your
  • 05:04 toes curling in your shoes when you hear his harsh invective,
  • 05:10 his diatribe, how that prophet gave voice to a world gone bad.
  • 05:16 Priests, the religious, the secular,
  • 05:19 everyone who was anyone was on the take.
  • 05:23 And against the backdrop of that draconian introduction, the 11th
  • 05:27 chapter, however, as we see here, Isaiah spoke
  • 05:32 of a coming king, a David-like king.
  • 05:35 We're told in chapter 11: "There'll come forth a Rod from
  • 05:38 the stump of Jesse, And a Branch will grow from his roots."
  • 05:44 Remember that Jesse was David's father.
  • 05:47 And the Davidic house, in effect, was cut down but there
  • 05:50 will, foomp, emerge from it a righteous branch, a
  • 05:54 righteous one, a mashiach, a messianic character.
  • 05:58 We're told here: "[speaking Hebrew] the spirit of
  • 06:01 the LORD will rest upon him, The Spirit of wisdom and
  • 06:05 understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, fear of the LORD.
  • 06:09 His delight will be in the fear of the LORD.
  • 06:12 [speaking in Hebrew]," the fear of the Lord, doesn't
  • 06:14 speak of trepidation and panic as much as it does of respect.
  • 06:19 And because he respects the Lord, he respects others.
  • 06:24 Isaiah was chagrined and why is that?
  • 06:26 Because the kingdom was vitiated, it was defiled,
  • 06:30 beneath the hands of godless rulers.
  • 06:32 He says in 10:2: "They robbed the needy of justice,
  • 06:37 they take what is right from the poor of
  • 06:40 My people, the widows are their prey."
  • 06:44 He goes on in the 10th chapter, verse 2 and 12, he says that
  • 06:47 people are robbed of their treasuries, again like our world
  • 06:51 where the wicked take advantage of the weaker.
  • 06:55 Isaiah sees a Davidic-like leader who reemerges, even
  • 06:59 centuries after David, and this is this messianic personality.
  • 07:04 We're told here that his delight will be in the fear
  • 07:06 of the Lord and he will rule with justice
  • 07:09 and equity and fairness and goodness.
  • 07:11 Now, listen to me.
  • 07:13 We need that kind of godly leadership in our godless world.
  • 07:19 And I am concerned personally.
  • 07:23 I don't know what you look for in leadership, be it civil or
  • 07:26 religious, but personally, individuals that resonate with
  • 07:30 Judeo-Christian ethics really matter to me and when I don't
  • 07:35 see that, I am gravely concerned.
  • 07:40 Isaiah pointed to the day when someone would emerge likened
  • 07:44 unto David and this reflects the fact that among other things,
  • 07:48 that the memory of David is alive, and may the
  • 07:51 memory be alive in our day as we're, with
  • 07:55 some measured anxiety, looking into the future.
  • 07:58 May it be your prayer with mine that godly people wield
  • 08:03 influence in our culture to the end that we may
  • 08:06 be better by virtue of their so doing.
  • 08:13 narrator: "And the Lord said, 'Woe to the shepherd who
  • 08:15 destroys and scatters the sheep of my pasture.'
  • 08:19 Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel against the shepherd
  • 08:23 who feeds my people: 'You have scattered my flock,
  • 08:27 driven them away, and not attended to them.
  • 08:30 Behold, I will attend to you for the evil
  • 08:33 of your doings,' says the Lord."
  • 08:41 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Behind me is a scaled version of the city
  • 08:45 of David in Yerushalayim, in Jerusalem.
  • 08:49 Actually, here in modern Israel, folks spent a small fortune to
  • 08:52 reconstruct that and it's beautiful.
  • 08:55 I'm told by a friend, Elie Asides, that this site is, along
  • 09:00 with Masada, one of the most frequented sites that pilgrims
  • 09:04 wanna check into when they visit Israel.
  • 09:06 And they're excited to see it.
  • 09:08 Yirmiyahu, Jeremiah, however, looked at this portion of the
  • 09:11 city and he was not a happy camper, and why is that?
  • 09:14 Well, he says in the 23rd chapter of his own book,
  • 09:18 Yirmiyahu, Jeremiah's on record saying, "Woe is the shepherds
  • 09:21 who destroy and scatter the sheep."
  • 09:26 Yirmiyahu, Jeremiah, saw destruction
  • 09:28 coming upon the city of David.
  • 09:30 Yerushalayim was going to take a hit
  • 09:33 by the Babylonians and why is that?
  • 09:35 Because Jeremiah says the priests were vitiated, defiled,
  • 09:41 the secular rulers were defiled as well.
  • 09:45 In so many ways, it was a world like our own, that is to say
  • 09:48 there's the pretense of religion and virtue, but the world had
  • 09:53 long since abandoned biblical affects.
  • 09:56 And so it is that Yirmiyahu, Jeremiah, went on record saying
  • 09:59 that the sheep are going to be scattered, and so they were.
  • 10:05 That's the bad news.
  • 10:06 The good news, however, is that Yirmiyahu
  • 10:08 envisioned a good world to come.
  • 10:11 And I'm glad he did, by the way.
  • 10:12 He didn't just leave his constituents despairing
  • 10:15 as we're gonna see in a moment when we look
  • 10:17 in the Bible, though he himself despaired.
  • 10:20 Yirmiyahu is called the weeping prophet,
  • 10:22 he's so very effusive, emotive.
  • 10:25 He's weeping. Why?
  • 10:26 'Cause he sees this beauty falling apart.
  • 10:29 He's called the lonely prophet as well because this priestly
  • 10:32 prophet was told never to marry and bear children because the
  • 10:37 children were just destined for the slave market, if not death
  • 10:40 outright when the Babylonians were going
  • 10:42 to come and rape and pillage and plunder.
  • 10:45 And come they did.
  • 10:47 Yirmiyahu, Jeremiah, as I'd said, saw a bad moon rising over
  • 10:51 this world that sadly is so much like our own.
  • 10:54 But not only that, happily, however, he telescopes to the
  • 10:59 future and he sees a bright spot beginning to emerge over the
  • 11:04 horizon like the sun rising from the East
  • 11:07 and displacing the prevailing darkness.
  • 11:10 He says in verse 5 in his own words: "Behold, the days are
  • 11:13 coming, says the LORD, when I will raise up
  • 11:15 to David a Branch of righteousness."
  • 11:20 We heard in the Isaianic passage earlier about the netzer, the
  • 11:24 branch, that will spring forth and, by the way, that's why in
  • 11:28 the New Testament Jesus is associated
  • 11:30 with a city called Nazara, Nazareth.
  • 11:33 It's named after the same.
  • 11:35 That connection wouldn't have been lost to Jewish people in
  • 11:38 the 1st century of this, the common era.
  • 11:40 In any case, Jeremiah telescopes into the future
  • 11:45 and he sees this Davidic person coming.
  • 11:48 David's been dead for years by the time he speaks, and David's
  • 11:52 been dead by--for millennia, but even in the Jewish world today,
  • 11:55 we sing "David Melech Yisrael chai vekayam," "David, the king
  • 12:00 of Israel, lives," because the memory lives, and why is that?
  • 12:04 Because the prophets kept his memory alive, and why is that?
  • 12:07 Because against the backdrop of a decaying world, they saw there
  • 12:12 would be an emergent Davidic-like leader.
  • 12:15 We're told in verse 6: "In His days Judah will be saved," and
  • 12:20 he says under his administration,
  • 12:23 "Israel will dwell securely."
  • 12:25 And then he goes on to speak of this leader and says:
  • 12:28 "And this is the name by which He shall be called:
  • 12:31 Adonai Tzidkenu, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS."
  • 12:37 I don't know how you feel, but in many
  • 12:39 ways I'm discouraged when I look out.
  • 12:43 I'm not the wisest owl in the forest, but when I look out over
  • 12:46 my perch, I'm not a happy camper when I look at our own culture.
  • 12:51 I see an abandonment of Judeo-Christian ethics, I see a
  • 12:54 pretense of religion, but people deny the power of it.
  • 12:58 I find people talking the talk, but I find rot and decay, and
  • 13:03 frankly, I find it in high places.
  • 13:06 Like Jeremiah and like you perhaps, I, we, he, look forward
  • 13:10 to the day when we'll see this emergent leadership.
  • 13:14 This series is called "The Warrior King," and we're looking
  • 13:17 for David-like leadership in Goliath-like times.
  • 13:23 May it be that more and more women and men stand up for
  • 13:25 biblical virtue in a world where that virtue is in
  • 13:29 very high demand and very short supply.
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  • 13:49 David: Our resources this week: Two books
  • 13:51 by Christian historian, David Barton.
  • 13:54 First, "America's Godly Heritage."
  • 13:56 This book details what the founding fathers intended for
  • 13:58 America and what can be done to return
  • 14:01 to its original guiding philosophy.
  • 14:04 Or "The Bulletproof George Washington," in this riveting
  • 14:07 account of God's providence and protection of the young soldier
  • 14:10 who later became our first president.
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  • 14:50 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Thank you for sending us
  • 14:53 to the Israeli Museum.
  • 14:56 There, we're afforded the opportunity to
  • 14:58 point our cameras at the Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • 15:02 It's all very fascinating.
  • 15:04 One of the things that troubles me, I should say, is many look
  • 15:07 at the Bible as the Dead Sea Scrolls, that is to say, it's
  • 15:12 dead in that it's a story about yesterday.
  • 15:16 These are not scrolls that speak to today.
  • 15:20 I don't believe that, personally.
  • 15:22 And I believe that we, in this program, we not only tell the
  • 15:26 story, but we help bring it alive where people can see it,
  • 15:30 specifically to see the good news through the eyes of the
  • 15:33 Jews, through Bible teachings, through creative reenactments,
  • 15:38 all done in Israel, just like the series on "Warrior King."
  • 15:45 We're deep in the series right now.
  • 15:47 I wanna ask you if you find value in what we do to bring
  • 15:51 this story to life, I want to encourage you to sow seeds in it
  • 15:56 please, and help us to continue to live
  • 15:59 and breathe and bring this story afresh.
  • 16:02 We're trying to lead people to the Lord, like a good shepherd.
  • 16:06 Speaking of which, we're going to go to a dramatic reenactment
  • 16:10 now and take a look at David, the Shepherd King.
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  • 16:18 narrator: "Thus saith the Lord God unto them, 'Therefore
  • 16:21 when I save my flock and they shall no more be prey, I will
  • 16:27 set up one shepherd over them and he shall feed them.
  • 16:31 Even my servant David, he shall feed them
  • 16:35 and he shall be their shepherd.
  • 16:38 And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David
  • 16:43 a prince among them'; I the Lord have spoken it."
  • 16:51 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I'm coming to you from the Kidron Valley.
  • 16:55 To my left, you can't see it, the ancient temple once stood
  • 17:00 and now there's Turkish walls round about it.
  • 17:02 To my right, the Mount of Olives.
  • 17:05 And here, in a valley where shepherds used to frequent,
  • 17:09 verdant lands, but that was yesteryear.
  • 17:14 Behind me is a monument to a name
  • 17:17 that's not often repeated here in Israel.
  • 17:21 It's a monument to Absalom, and why he would be remembered in a
  • 17:26 place like this is anybody's guess, because truth be known,
  • 17:31 he himself is persona non grata, and why is that?
  • 17:35 Because Absalom was David's son who sought to kill him.
  • 17:40 He drove David out of his own palace, made the king run for
  • 17:44 his life in the later years of his life as Absalom--the name
  • 17:50 "Avi" means my father, and shalom is peace.
  • 17:55 He has a name connected to peace, "my father is peace."
  • 17:58 But he gave his father
  • 18:00 [speaking in Hebrew], truth be known.
  • 18:02 [speaking in Hebrew], he gave him
  • 18:03 aggravations as he sought to undermine him.
  • 18:07 David lived in a precarious world.
  • 18:10 This Absalom scattered the sheep, drove David away, caused
  • 18:15 angst in the culture, and you know what?
  • 18:18 When there's bad leadership that
  • 18:19 comes to power, it does much the same.
  • 18:24 David must have been spellbound with grief when he considered
  • 18:29 what had happened, not only his own political dislocation, but
  • 18:33 the fact that his own son, his wicked son who killed his
  • 18:38 brother previously, by the way, that he has come to power.
  • 18:42 And David was not a happy camper.
  • 18:47 Well, Ezekiel remembers this story years later,
  • 18:51 that is to say, the David story, and why is that?
  • 18:55 Because Ezekiel inhabited a world much like David did in the
  • 19:00 sense that bad people had come to power.
  • 19:04 In fact, the wound in Judah was irreparable.
  • 19:08 It was not to be fixed.
  • 19:10 Judgment was meted out, and why is that?
  • 19:14 Because wickedness reigned from the palace, wickedness reigned
  • 19:19 from the pulpit, and wickedness was ubiquitous in the pew
  • 19:23 everywhere, and it was not to be fixed.
  • 19:26 So much for the bad news.
  • 19:28 Difficulties notwithstanding, in a world where the righteous were
  • 19:32 disconcerted and scattered, Ezekiel telegraphed out into the
  • 19:36 future and he envisioned that a good shepherd will emerge.
  • 19:41 He says--he lambasts in the 34th chapter, there are these bad
  • 19:46 shepherds that are heaving discontent in the culture but
  • 19:51 then he goes on to say: "Difficulties notwithstanding,"
  • 19:54 in verse 23 and I quote, he says: "I will establish one
  • 19:59 shepherd over them, and he shall feed them--My servant David."
  • 20:07 David was long since dead as of Ezekiel's writing but the memory
  • 20:11 of this imperfect yet righteous sort, he knew what it was to
  • 20:14 repent, he found forgiveness, he was a man after God's own heart.
  • 20:18 Ezekiel says, "We need some of that ruling again."
  • 20:22 Now, arguably, Ezekiel's looking forward, his forward thrust to
  • 20:27 this coming Davidic shepherd harks to the messianic era.
  • 20:32 We know that, by the way, because when we look in the New
  • 20:34 Testament, in the Matthean Gospel, the Matthew text, which
  • 20:37 was written in a Semitic language, originally it opens
  • 20:40 up, "[speaking foreign language]."
  • 20:44 He's introduced, "Ben-David, Ben-Avraham, the son of David,"
  • 20:49 and we know in the New Testament as Yeshua went about, "Son of
  • 20:53 David, Son of David," well, here Ezekiel envisions that a Davidic
  • 20:56 Son will emerge and we're told, "He will be their shepherd."
  • 21:02 And then in verse 24: "And I, the LORD, will be their God, and
  • 21:05 My servant David a prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken."
  • 21:12 I don't know about you, but that's what I want.
  • 21:14 I look forward to the day when Sar Shalom comes,
  • 21:18 when the Prince of Peace comes.
  • 21:20 But until such time as he arrives, I want David-like
  • 21:24 leadership in Goliath-like times ruling in our land.
  • 21:28 I want that man after God's own heart.
  • 21:32 I believe politicians, frankly, can be very well-intended,
  • 21:36 but I believe as well that the road to hell
  • 21:38 is paved with good intentions.
  • 21:40 I want praying people ruling, and you and I need to pray for
  • 21:44 our country, for our culture, because we want godly leadership
  • 21:48 and we need it because we need David-like
  • 21:50 leadership in these Goliath-like times.
  • 21:56 Kirsten: In today's program, Jeff has been talking about King
  • 21:59 David as a prototype for Messiah, and Jesus we saw the
  • 22:04 tender heart but we didn't really see on earth Jesus as a
  • 22:08 warrior king, like, slaying the tens of thousands.
  • 22:11 That wasn't his heart at that time.
  • 22:13 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, his mission wasn't to carve out
  • 22:16 territory with boundaries in land.
  • 22:18 When you do that, you're gonna have to have an army.
  • 22:21 That's just the realities of the world that we live in.
  • 22:23 You know, in America we have an army and God bless our soldiers.
  • 22:27 Israel has an army, God bless our soldiers,
  • 22:29 and God bless the leaders that inspire them.
  • 22:33 But Jesus gave voice to the fact
  • 22:34 that his kingdom was not of this world.
  • 22:37 He came at a time to bring about something different,
  • 22:40 to help people get to the world to come.
  • 22:42 Now, he's gonna return to this world
  • 22:44 and then take care of business in that way, but that
  • 22:47 wasn't the task in hand in his Coming.
  • 22:51 David: When we're on our tour bus, every time I look out the
  • 22:53 window in certain places and we're in a mountain and we see
  • 22:57 rocks, I think of Yeshua having to climb
  • 23:01 those mountains and rocks, and he wasn't a wimp.
  • 23:04 Kirsten: Right, right, he was strong.
  • 23:06 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No, he would have had to be a rugged
  • 23:08 outdoors person, to be sure.
  • 23:09 David: Yes, maybe not a warrior, per se, but strong.
  • 23:13 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, certainly, the greatest battle
  • 23:16 he had to fight was his own inclinations and not sin.
  • 23:20 You know, he's on the cross and the word "excruciating" comes
  • 23:26 from the Latin "ex crucis" which means "from the cross."
  • 23:30 And that's when they put the sign on him, "King of the Jews."
  • 23:34 So there's the Warrior King, and it looked like a loss
  • 23:37 but the cross were the victory.
  • 23:39 The next time he comes back, it won't look like a loss.
  • 23:42 Kirsten: Where everyone will be bowing down to him, everyone,
  • 23:44 the whole world will understand his strength and his power and
  • 23:48 that kingdom will come at that time.
  • 23:50 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, so it is.
  • 23:52 And people lose sight of that, quite frankly.
  • 23:56 And they lose sight of the militancy that's involved.
  • 24:00 And--but it's there.
  • 24:02 I mean, we need to look at the book from, as my wife says, from
  • 24:05 Genesis to maps, you know, from one end to the other, and it
  • 24:09 does get tumultuous at the ragged end of time
  • 24:12 and there is war, and Jesus does come
  • 24:14 and participates in bringing an end to it.
  • 24:17 Kirsten: Well, we've appreciated your insight,
  • 24:19 your wisdom, your knowledge that
  • 24:21 you brought this week and every week.
  • 24:23 We have more to come. Stay with us.
  • 24:27 David: "Our Jewish Roots" is more than
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  • 25:19 Israel, there's actual programs that we make for social media.
  • 25:23 So maybe put your little tech-savvy hat on and find us.
  • 25:28 We're easy to find. We'll see you online.
  • 25:30 David: And one of the places we take you on our Israel tour:
  • 25:33 Chaim Malespin is there right now.
  • 25:36 Let's take a look.
  • 25:37 ♪♪♪
  • 25:44 Chaim Malespin: Here I am at what is
  • 25:45 a scale model of Jerusalem.
  • 25:47 You can come closer.
  • 25:49 And this is the temple, how it used to look.
  • 25:53 Do you think the temple will be rebuilt, the third temple?
  • 25:56 We know Prophet Ezekiel talks about a temple
  • 25:59 that is built which is bigger in dimensions
  • 26:02 than any temple we've ever seen yet.
  • 26:04 We also know there will be a temple not made by hands which
  • 26:07 will come from heaven and it will be the new Jerusalem.
  • 26:10 But I'm excited to say, "Look at the glory that was here for
  • 26:14 years and years until, as Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai says, after
  • 26:21 Yeshua died, "No more was there the glory in the temple."
  • 26:24 The doors would open automatically.
  • 26:26 You know what else?
  • 26:28 The red cord that would tie in those temple doors, right there,
  • 26:31 would stay red, it would never turn white ever again.
  • 26:34 The stone they would find in the bag, they would pull out a
  • 26:37 stone that's either a white one or a black stone.
  • 26:39 They would never pull out the white stone ever again because
  • 26:43 the atonement had already been brought by Yeshua.
  • 26:46 ♪ It is well, it is well with my soul, with my soul. ♪
  • 26:56 ♪ It is well, it is well with my soul, with my soul. ♪
  • 27:00 ♪ It is well, it is well with my soul. ♪
  • 27:10 ♪ It is well, it is well with my soul. ♪
  • 27:15 ♪♪♪
  • 27:17 ♪♪♪
  • 27:27 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Jesus died for our sins
  • 27:29 and he's coming again.
  • 27:31 He's coming back.
  • 27:33 We're about out of time,
  • 27:34 but we're coming back too, aren't we?
  • 27:36 Kirsten: We are, and I just have to say I'm sitting here at
  • 27:38 this desk and all I think is "King of kings
  • 27:42 and Lord of lords," "Hallelujah" chorus, he is
  • 27:44 coming back in all of his glory very soon.
  • 27:48 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Indeed, and it's--
  • 27:50 we're just so thrilled to tell the story.
  • 27:52 David: Thank you for your teaching today.
  • 27:54 It's time to end. We always end with this.
  • 27:56 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
  • 27:59 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
  • 28:01 ♪♪♪
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Episodes in this series

  1. Facing Goliath
  2. The Lord’s Annointed
  3. Disobedient and Destracted
  4. Fighting for Israel
  5. Ascending the Throne
  6. Royal Lineage
  7. Poetry and Psalms
  8. The Ultimate Son

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