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• 00:00 rt: Shalom.
• 00:02 On today's program, the southern kingdom of Judah
• 00:04 has been captured, Ezekiel is chosen to proclaim
• 00:07 God's judgment and his future restoration.
• 00:10 Stay tuned for "Our Jewish Roots"
• 00:12 with Bible teaching by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
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• 00:25 narrator: "The Lord said unto Ezekiel,
• 00:27 'Son of Man, can these bones live?
• 00:37 Prophesy upon these bones and say unto them,
• 00:40 "Oh ye, dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.'"
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• 01:12 David: "Ezekiel and the Mid East 'Piece' Process."
• 01:19 David: Thank you so much for joining us today.
• 01:20 I am David Hart.
• 01:22 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:23 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And I am Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:24 David: Our series today is-- we're starting a new series,
• 01:27 actually, on Ezekiel that you taught a decade ago.
• 01:32 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, but you know,
• 01:33 Ezekiel taught many decades ago.
• 01:35 It's such an honor to bring these messengers
• 01:38 and messages to life.
• 01:41 David: I was gonna say, we grew up in Sunday school
• 01:44 and thought we knew all about Ezekiel from,
• 01:46 you remember the song?
• 01:48 Kirsten: Oh, "[singing]
• 01:49 Ezekiel saw the wheel way up in the middle of the sky."
• 01:53 Look at the--did you-- have you heard that song?
• 01:55 It's a Sunday school song.
• 01:56 David: But that's all we know about it.
• 01:57 There's so much more that you will teach us.
• 01:59 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: You know, I didn't do Sunday school.
• 02:01 The church I went to was synagogue
• 02:02 and I wasn't very familiar with Ezekiel,
• 02:04 but I am familiar with the song and it is really interesting.
• 02:09 Ezekiel's a fascinating character and it's a book
• 02:12 that's characterized by fascinating visions,
• 02:15 signs and wonders and the like.
• 02:17 It really is something to behold.
• 02:19 Kirsten: But we both went to Bible college
• 02:21 and even in Bible college, I mean we had to study
• 02:23 all the books in the Bible, all I remember from Ezekiel
• 02:26 was there was a wheel.
• 02:27 I'm like, "Is it a chariot?
• 02:29 Is it a spinning wheel?"
• 02:30 And I am so thankful for what you will bring to all of us
• 02:34 with the depth of what that symbolized
• 02:37 and there's so much more to the book.
• 02:39 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: There is, and just to boil it down
• 02:41 principally, Ezekiel was in exile.
• 02:44 He was a displaced person when he saw that,
• 02:47 speaking to exiles, people that are upended by circumstance.
• 02:52 They're in a bad place in life, and there's a powerful vision
• 02:55 of God even there in a bad place.
• 02:59 And that's really good to know,
• 03:01 not just for Ezekiel's recipients but for people today.
• 03:06 It was a wakeup call for Ezekiel.
• 03:08 God says, "I'm still here," and he got their attention
• 03:11 by a vision and he got our attention through a message
• 03:14 in the book of Ezekiel.
• 03:16 Kirsten: Well, we're looking forward to the whole series.
• 03:17 David: Yes, right now we find out what the prophet Ezekiel
• 03:20 is doing in Babylon.
• 03:22 Let's go there right now.
• 03:25 narrator: In 593 BC, Ezekiel was among the exiles by the
• 03:29 River Chebar in Babylonia, and the heavens were opened,
• 03:34 and he saw visions of God.
• 03:39 A whirlwind came out of the North,
• 03:41 and a brightness was about him.
• 03:47 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: His name means God strengthens,
• 03:50 and Ezekiel was going to use all the strength he could muster.
• 03:57 And why is that?
• 03:58 Because this man lived at the ragged edge of time.
• 04:05 And what time was it, pray tell?
• 04:08 It was a time when the chickens were coming home to roost.
• 04:13 Why do I say that?
• 04:15 When Manasseh came to power, Hezekiah's son,
• 04:20 he brought bad things with him: idolatry,
• 04:25 and with bad religion came bad practice.
• 04:29 People were debauched in their personal lives,
• 04:32 they were unethical, they were unjust.
• 04:36 Josiah, his grandson, came to power and endeavored
• 04:40 to make some reforms and he was good about it but,
• 04:44 sadly, he died young on the plains of Megiddo,
• 04:48 Armageddon.
• 04:51 His successors were like the grandfather:
• 04:54 they went from bad to worse, and the Hebrew Bible tells us
• 04:58 that the wound was incurable.
• 05:01 And against that backdrop, Ezekiel makes his entrance onto
• 05:06 the stage of the human drama and he makes his entrance
• 05:10 at a time when, in the wake of the Battle of Carchemish,
• 05:15 Babylonia came to power and Judea was annexed
• 05:18 as a Babylonian holding, and it was only a question of time.
• 05:25 Ezekiel with 10,000 others were spirited away to Babylonia.
• 05:30 Some remained in Judea but their fate, in effect,
• 05:34 was sealed.
• 05:36 Ezekiel, the name means God strengthened and,
• 05:40 as I said, he was going to need all the strength
• 05:45 he could muster.
• 05:47 And to help him along, this man had a vision of God
• 05:54 comparable to Isaiah who, in the 6th chapter,
• 05:57 has a vision of God in his throne room.
• 06:00 And you hear in the text, "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 06:05 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty,
• 06:09 the Lord of Hosts."
• 06:11 And here, Ezekiel has a powerful vision of his own.
• 06:17 And again, he ministered at a time when vision
• 06:22 and vision of hope was needed,
• 06:25 for hope was in very high demand and very short supply.
• 06:30 And why is that?
• 06:31 Because Judea had sunk.
• 06:34 The temple was to be overrun, the commonwealth would collapse,
• 06:39 and Ezekiel ministered amongst refugees, exiles,
• 06:44 in a big refugee camp, displaced persons,
• 06:48 miserable persons, and to those persons Ezekiel
• 06:52 had a message of hope.
• 06:55 Like you to open up your Bibles please and mine in
• 06:57 the 1st chapter, the 1st verse: "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 07:02 And it came to pass.
• 07:04 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 07:10 And it came to pass in the 30th year,
• 07:14 in the 4th month, in the 5th day of the month,
• 07:19 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 07:26 and as I was among the captives by the River Chebar,
• 07:31 that the heavens were opened to me [speaking in Hebrew]
• 07:39 and I saw visions of God."
• 07:42 And what a vision it was.
• 07:46 We read in verse 4, he says, "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 07:51 And I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came
• 07:55 out of the north, and a great cloud with fire flashing up
• 08:00 so that a brightness was round about."
• 08:03 He had a fantastic experience.
• 08:06 Ezekiel ministered at a time when Judea was
• 08:12 in a ruinous state and, as I stand here amongst former ruins
• 08:16 of a bygone era just beneath the Jewish quarter in modern Israel,
• 08:22 you're looking at the site of a former devastation as
• 08:27 the commonwealth collapsed.
• 08:30 Well, in this series on Ezekiel, we're gonna consider the demise
• 08:34 and we're gonna consider the rise as we consider what
• 08:38 Ezekiel has to say as we look at "Ezekiel and the Mid East
• 08:42 'Piece' Process" and consider the prophetic word
• 08:45 that he brought from his troubled circumstance.
• 08:51 narrator: "And the Lord spoke to Ezekiel, Son of man,
• 08:55 'I shall take your wife from you.
• 08:57 Weep not, mourn not.'"
• 09:00 And so it was, that the Lord revealed to Israel
• 09:03 that Jerusalem's temple would soon pass away.
• 09:07 The death of a beloved wife, a holy temple vanquished,
• 09:13 a picture of grief beyond expression.
• 09:19 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: "We are standing on holy ground."
• 09:23 Now that's an old song of the church.
• 09:26 And I want you to know that right now,
• 09:28 we are standing on holy ground.
• 09:32 It doesn't get a whole lot holier than this here in
• 09:36 Jerusalem, here at the Southern Steps of the temple proper,
• 09:42 steps that Jesus Christ walked up and down.
• 09:46 It's a thrill to come to you from this place.
• 09:50 In fact, this place is a thrill for so many.
• 09:53 You can see the golden bricks are lighting behind me.
• 09:57 There's a famous song the Jews sing:
• 09:59 "[speaking in Hebrew] Jerusalem, a city of gold."
• 10:05 I love this city, you love this city,
• 10:08 and Ezekiel loved this city, a priest.
• 10:14 Can't tell you how heartbroken he was,
• 10:16 however, to have to inform that this city will be laid waste.
• 10:24 I'm sitting on top of pillars here in the temple complex
• 10:28 that were felled in a former generation.
• 10:31 "The Lord gives and the Lord takes away."
• 10:34 You've heard that expression.
• 10:36 This is the Lord's house, and he let his house be overrun
• 10:39 because of the iniquity of his people.
• 10:44 The way Ezekiel was positioned in conjunction with that
• 10:48 is striking.
• 10:50 And why do I say that?
• 10:52 Ezekiel was a priest, trained to minister in this house.
• 10:57 Ezekiel, however, was spirited away from this house
• 11:00 with 10,000 others after the Babylonians
• 11:04 annexed Judea as one of its holdings.
• 11:07 And in captivity, Ezekiel was given a word.
• 11:12 But he wasn't just given a word.
• 11:14 Tragically, he was given an illustration in conjunction
• 11:20 with that word.
• 11:21 If you'd open up your Bibles, please, to Ezekiel chapter 24,
• 11:26 I want to read some horrible text to you.
• 11:31 Horrible in verse 16: "Ben Adam, Son of man,
• 11:38 [speaking in Hebrew] behold, [speaking in Hebrew]
• 11:50 Behold, I will take away from you with one stroke
• 11:56 the desire of your eyes."
• 12:02 The Lord told Ezekiel, "I am going to take your wife's life,"
• 12:10 and the death of Ezekiel's wife was right at the time
• 12:14 when this temple in Jerusalem suffered its own death.
• 12:21 But it was finally overrun by the Babylonians
• 12:24 and inasmuch as Ezekiel lost the desire of his eyes,
• 12:32 we read in 24:21 that this was illustrative
• 12:38 of what would happen in Judea is made explicit.
• 12:41 He says, and I quote, "Behold, I will profane My sanctuary,
• 12:47 the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes,
• 12:52 the longing of your soul; and your sons and your daughters
• 12:57 whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword."
• 13:03 Tragic words uttered many, many, many years ago.
• 13:11 And here I sit, among the devastations
• 13:16 of a former generation.
• 13:19 Let me just say, parenthetically,
• 13:22 that you're invited to come and walk in these steps,
• 13:26 the Archeological Park in Jerusalem.
• 13:29 And the Davidson Center of the Park,
• 13:32 particularly, has done a wonderful job
• 13:34 of resurrecting all this.
• 13:36 But the resurrection of this pales in comparison
• 13:40 to the resurrection to come.
• 13:42 Ezekiel in these dark days, forecasted gloomy days,
• 13:48 but he said as well that the bright light will once again
• 13:52 rise over the horizon and illuminate these stones,
• 13:56 the limestone here in Jerusalem.
• 13:59 The prophet had bad news but he closed doing good news.
• 14:03 And speaking of bad news and good news,
• 14:05 here we're looking at the Middle East peace process
• 14:09 from Ezekiel's perspective.
• 14:11 There's bad news but there's good news still to come.
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• 16:14 a quick thank you, toda raba in Hebrew,
• 16:18 for all of you because you keep this program on the air.
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• 16:27 We go to Israel to tape and for the teachings that Dr. Seif
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• 16:36 One of our favorite things, or my favorite thing in Israel,
• 16:39 is the food.
• 16:40 We go to Israel to eat and, speaking of eating,
• 16:44 Ezekiel was giving--given a literal scroll and God said,
• 16:48 "Eat these words," and he did.
• 16:50 Let's see what happened now.
• 16:54 narrator: "And Ezekiel reached towards the Lord
• 16:57 and received a scroll and the Lord said unto Ezekiel,
• 17:01 'Son of man, eat this scroll and go speak
• 17:05 unto the house of Israel my words.'
• 17:07 The mournful message to Israel would be troubling but,
• 17:11 in his obedience to God, Ezekiel would find the taste
• 17:15 of the scroll to be as sweet as honey."
• 17:22 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I don't know how you live your life,
• 17:24 but I know for myself that when I find myself stressed,
• 17:29 perplexed, I find it to be very important for me to get
• 17:34 into the Scriptures.
• 17:36 For what I want to do is get God's Word in my mind
• 17:39 to help me have equilibrium, to help me to have peace,
• 17:43 to help me to, with God's help, get new ideas in order
• 17:47 to confront the pressing circumstances
• 17:51 that are imposing themselves upon me.
• 17:54 Ezekiel found himself in a world where he and the Judean exiles
• 17:59 were pressed round about.
• 18:02 And I find it interesting, personally,
• 18:04 that there's a story here of Ezekiel coming
• 18:07 upon God's Word and being told to actually eat it,
• 18:11 and then reporting that it was sweet to him.
• 18:14 I find something in this living drama that's so very powerful,
• 18:18 not just for Ezekiel but for me.
• 18:23 I'm interested in Ezekiel at one level because of the history.
• 18:26 It's fascinating and we're going to see as we follow along
• 18:29 in the series how Ezekiel envisions the world
• 18:32 at the ragged edge of time and he says what
• 18:35 God's going to do in that world, and you're going to see
• 18:37 how Israel's reconstitution as a nation state factors into that.
• 18:41 You're going to hear about how the nations round about
• 18:44 are hell bent on her destruction and a whole lot more.
• 18:47 You're gonna learn about the end game in human history.
• 18:50 But here, as Ezekiel is pressed, we learn something
• 18:53 about his story.
• 18:55 In chapter 3, verse 1, the Lord says,
• 18:57 "Son of man, eat what you find."
• 19:00 And then we're told that he comes upon a scroll
• 19:03 and then we're told at the end of verse 3,
• 19:06 "I ate it, and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness."
• 19:11 So it's fascinating and it bears reminding.
• 19:16 Those of you that need God's peace plan for your own
• 19:19 circumstances, you'd do well to get into God's Word
• 19:23 to digest it, to take it in.
• 19:26 I can't underscore that enough.
• 19:29 I mean, it's a pastoral point at one level and you don't need
• 19:31 to watch national TV.
• 19:33 You should be able to hear this in your own local church,
• 19:36 but just, it's so worth underscoring that what you need,
• 19:40 if you find yourself pressed, is you need to get into the Word.
• 19:43 You need to eat it.
• 19:44 You need that, the fiber of the Word to inform you
• 19:48 and to strengthen you.
• 19:50 And inasmuch as Ezekiel's name means God strengthens
• 19:53 that you can do what Ezekiel did and get strengthened.
• 19:56 Well, he was strengthened for a purpose
• 19:57 beyond his own needing to recover equilibrium.
• 20:00 We're told in verse 10 of this same chapter,
• 20:03 chapter 3, the Lord says, "Son of man,
• 20:07 all My words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart,
• 20:10 and hear them with your ears."
• 20:14 First thing we have to do is open ourselves up to hear
• 20:16 the Scriptures, to get 'em in our mind and then to open up
• 20:20 our heart.
• 20:21 Let it go through our ears into our mind,
• 20:23 then down into our heart.
• 20:25 "And go get them to those of the captivity,
• 20:29 to the children of Israel of your people,
• 20:31 and speak to them and tell them, 'Thus saith the Lord God,'
• 20:35 whether they hear, or refuse to hear."
• 20:40 Let me tell you something.
• 20:42 Ezekiel had a really tough assignment,
• 20:46 and he was strengthened for the task in part
• 20:48 because he had a godly vision.
• 20:52 The Lord had shown up and given him a vision of who he was,
• 20:57 a fantastic vision.
• 20:59 And with that, he was strengthened.
• 21:02 In fact, his name means God strengthen, as I've said,
• 21:05 rather providential it seems.
• 21:08 In any case, what we have here is a story of a man
• 21:11 who's been girded up.
• 21:12 He's getting into the Word, he's studying up,
• 21:15 he's encouraged to speak up, and why is that?
• 21:18 Because God was going to work through Ezekiel to tell the
• 21:22 story, to look at the unfolding of the mystery of the ages.
• 21:28 For those of you that follow me through Ezekiel,
• 21:30 we're going to take a whirlwind trip through time.
• 21:35 We're going to go back to Ezekiel's time.
• 21:37 We're gonna look at the present time and then at time to come,
• 21:41 as we consider God's peace plan.
• 21:44 We consider ABC, NBC, Fox News, and now it's time
• 21:49 for Bible news, and you're going to be fascinated.
• 21:52 This man ate the word.
• 21:54 He got the mind of the Lord, and he gave a word
• 21:56 that is spellbinding for its potency.
• 22:00 You're gonna be drawn into Ezekiel's world,
• 22:02 and you're gonna see the world at the ragged edge of time and,
• 22:06 in the process of so doing, I hope you'll get a word
• 22:09 for your own time and be reminded of the fact
• 22:12 at the end of days God has a peace plan
• 22:14 to restore peace to you personally
• 22:17 and to restore peace to the world at large.
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• 23:24 Kirsten: Dr. Seif has given us many pieces
• 23:27 to the prophetic puzzle.
• 23:30 Can I get any more "P's" in there?
• 23:32 But it's interesting the title of this series when
• 23:35 we first heard it we thought it would be P-E-A-C-E,
• 23:38 but it's not.
• 23:39 It's P-I-E-C-E, which is a little different.
• 23:41 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, people speak of the Middle East
• 23:42 peace process, and it's a play on words.
• 23:45 We opted for piece as in puzzle piece,
• 23:48 principally to underscore, though,
• 23:50 the Middle East situation is rather puzzling, as is life.
• 23:53 Israel's emergence in that world is a major piece
• 23:58 and we wanted to consider that and things associated with it.
• 24:01 Kirsten: There are many different interesting pieces
• 24:04 should I say to Ezekiel's life and you were just talking
• 24:07 about the death of his wife.
• 24:10 Now, we've been married, are we, 32, 33?
• 24:12 David: Thirty-three.
• 24:13 Kirsten: You know you're married a lot of years
• 24:15 when you don't remember exactly how many years.
• 24:16 But it's interesting to me, as a wife, and Ezekiel, I mean,
• 24:20 I can't imagine me dying and God telling Dave,
• 24:23 "Don't you mourn.
• 24:25 You're not supposed to mourn."
• 24:26 David: You've been through that yourself.
• 24:27 Of course you mourned, from your first wife.
• 24:29 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, it was a strange stretch
• 24:31 of highway, losing Patti but I'm so glad that the Lord
• 24:37 graced me with Barri to kind of push a reset button,
• 24:41 but it was miserable.
• 24:42 It was hell on earth.
• 24:44 David: Can you imagine God saying,
• 24:45 "Don't you mourn her"?
• 24:46 I don't quite understand how that--
• 24:48 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It seems that the Lord put that prophet
• 24:50 at a rather strange place in life,
• 24:53 that the death of his wife was assigned at the very day--
• 24:58 now Ezekiel is hundreds of miles away from Israel,
• 25:02 from Judah, but the death of his wife coincided
• 25:06 with the destruction to Jerusalem.
• 25:08 It's like the Lord said to Ezekiel,
• 25:10 "I lost my wife today.
• 25:11 You're losing your love as well."
• 25:14 And his life becomes an object lesson where the message
• 25:19 and the messenger are experiencing the same.
• 25:23 It's rather interesting.
• 25:25 It's the way God opted to use the prophet.
• 25:26 David: Right now, even you talking gives me
• 25:28 little goosebumps thinking about God using Ezekiel
• 25:31 in that way for Israel, Jerusalem.
• 25:34 It's pretty amazing.
• 25:35 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and to your initial point about not
• 25:40 grieving, which is important in the wake of the death of a loved
• 25:43 one, but I think it would strike the sensibilities of others too.
• 25:48 I mean, God, to get people's attention,
• 25:51 strikes nerves.
• 25:54 Sometimes, preachers, we just wanna raise the volume
• 25:58 in the hope that people will listen.
• 26:00 I get that.
• 26:01 But God goes for nerves, for pain,
• 26:04 for something odd, to prompt people
• 26:08 to look twice at something, and God wants people
• 26:12 to look twice or three times at the relationship with him.
• 26:15 David: You just said the word "hope."
• 26:17 I think this program deals with hope for all of us watching.
• 26:21 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: The national anthem of the modern state
• 26:24 of Israel is called "Hatikvah," which means "The Hope,"
• 26:28 and it's called specifically from Ezekiel.
• 26:32 David: Yes.
• 26:33 Kirsten: Even through pain, even through hardships,
• 26:35 even through losing his spouse, we can still have hope and,
• 26:38 in the end, hope wins.
• 26:41 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, and in this series,
• 26:44 we're out of this program right now,
• 26:45 but in this series, we note how the emergence of Israel
• 26:49 isn't just hope for Jews; it's hope for the world.
• 26:54 It's rather puzzling but we want them to take a look
• 26:56 at that particular piece.
• 26:58 Kirsten: Tell them more next week.
• 26:59 David: Yeah, so much more to come.
• 27:01 Kirsten: Yes. David: It's time to end.
• 27:02 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: 'Til then, Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:05 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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