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Caption transcript for Josiah and the Last Reformation: “The Bones of the Prophet” (7/8)

• 00:01 ♪♪♪
• 00:10 ♪♪♪
• 00:20 ♪♪♪
• 00:30 ♪♪♪
• 00:41 Joshua Colson: Good morning, brother.
• 00:43 We are headed to our first shoot of the day, we are moving
• 00:46 at breakneck speed, it's nearly impossible to hold
• 00:48 the camera still.
• 00:50 What's happening?
• 00:51 Caleb Colson: We're stuck in traffic.
• 00:52 In fact, the police have blocked off the road again.
• 00:54 This has been the theme for this trip in Israel, because it's
• 00:57 the code, every road is blocked off, we have to walk two miles
• 01:01 to our shooting location and we're super sweaty by the time
• 01:04 we get there.
• 01:05 So, when watch our episodes in the future and you wonder
• 01:06 why we're drenched in sweat, that's the reason why.
• 01:08 Joshua: At least, this morning, we'll probably go into some
• 01:10 beautiful vista that overlooks all of God's creation here
• 01:13 in Israel, and it makes it all worth it, right?
• 01:17 Caleb: Absolutely not, we're going to a tomb, we're going
• 01:20 to see hundreds of people.
• 01:21 Joshua: Like will they need to learn about Jesus?
• 01:25 Caleb: Yeah.
• 01:26 ♪♪♪
• 01:37 Joshua: Headed to the Tomb of Prophets.
• 01:39 Oh, it's a hill in steps.
• 01:43 Why don't tombs go down?
• 01:44 Caleb: Our tomb goes up.
• 01:46 ♪♪♪
• 01:54 Caleb: I'm not gonna lie, guys, last week's episode made me
• 01:57 giddy, King Josiah went around his whole kingdom and
• 02:00 he cleansed it of all the Pagan shrines and altars
• 02:03 and high places, just annihilated it all.
• 02:05 Joshua: And then he did something else that most people
• 02:07 are probably not gonna understand, today, because it
• 02:08 was ceremonial at the time.
• 02:10 Let me tell you, it involves all these graves that
• 02:13 we're surrounded by and the dead bodies inside.
• 02:15 Let's go check it out.
• 02:19 Caleb: From now on, I'm stipulating in my contract,
• 02:22 "No descending into underground death chasms."
• 02:25 I mean, that should be number one on everybody's list.
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• 02:32 Joshua: Get out of my cave, yo, this is my cave.
• 02:35 Caleb: It's totally not your cave, I'm here.
• 02:37 Joshua: It's totally my cave.
• 02:38 Caleb: You can't claim my cave, you squatter.
• 02:44 Joshua: Well, brother, totally not creepy at all.
• 02:47 Something important to remember about Josiah is that he didn't
• 02:49 just give the order to go out and cleanse the land,
• 02:52 he went out and did it himself.
• 02:54 He tore down the Pagan high places, he chopped up the
• 02:56 Asherah poles, he ground their altars into dust, he had to make
• 02:59 sure it was done the right way, the way that
• 03:01 the Law of Moses indicated.
• 03:03 Caleb: That's right, guys, and that's why we came here, to
• 03:05 the Tomb of the Prophets, it's believed to be the final resting
• 03:08 place for such greats as Zechariah, Haggai, and Malachi,
• 03:11 and there's these burial niches beside us where they would place
• 03:14 the dead bodies.
• 03:15 And thus, when one would walk around, they would see a lot
• 03:17 of bones.
• 03:18 Now, if one would touch these bones,
• 03:20 according to the Law of Moses, you were ceremonially unclean,
• 03:24 hence the need for the ashes of a red heifer
• 03:26 in the water of cleansing.
• 03:27 Well, Numbers 19:11-13 says, "Whoever touches a human corpse
• 03:32 will be unclean for seven days.
• 03:34 They must purify themselves with the water on the third day
• 03:37 and on the seventh day; then they will be clean.
• 03:40 But if they do not purify themselves in the third
• 03:42 and seventh days, they will not be clean.
• 03:44 If they fail to purify themselves after touching
• 03:46 a human corpse, they defile the LORD's tabernacle.
• 03:49 They must be cut off from Israel."
• 03:53 King Josiah understood the severity of being unclean,
• 03:57 and therefore, to make sure that no one would try to rebuild
• 04:01 the high places, like his grandfather Manasseh
• 04:03 and his father Ammon did, he devised a plan.
• 04:06 Joshua: And this plan was ingenious, he went and sprinkled
• 04:09 bones and bone dust on the ruins to make sure they stay ruined,
• 04:13 because the Jews couldn't touch the bones or they'd
• 04:14 become unclean.
• 04:17 Joshua: Huh, it's weird, I've never seen that recipe before
• 04:20 in a Kosher cookbook, it must be sitting next to the other
• 04:23 cookbook, the one with the bacon cheeseburger, that one I know.
• 04:26 You know, just a few things here, there, a little sprinkle
• 04:28 of dead prophet dust on it.
• 04:29 No problem, you're going to Sheol.
• 04:33 Joshua: 2 Kings 23:14, "Josiah smashed the sacred stones
• 04:37 and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites
• 04:40 with human bones."
• 04:45 Caleb: Now, the reason we came to this Tomb of a Prophet's
• 04:47 location is because it foreshows the most pinnacle moment
• 04:51 in King Josiah's life.
• 04:52 You know, the prophets were God's messengers, they foretold
• 04:55 doom and destruction to come, and they are the vanguard
• 04:58 against wickedness and sin.
• 05:00 Joshua: There was one very special prophet that Josiah
• 05:02 never met but would change his life forever.
• 05:05 So, let's head north to Bethel to tell that
• 05:07 very important story.
• 05:09 ♪♪♪
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• 05:28 male: But, in general, in general,
• 05:32 they don't like chicken.
• 05:33 Caleb: All right, we just made it past the checkpoint to the
• 05:35 West Bank, they were checking our passports, they even came
• 05:39 on our bus, they said, "It's not really easy right now, we have
• 05:41 to do this, sorry, we don't normally do this."
• 05:43 We are in the West Bank now because we have to go to Betel,
• 05:47 Bethel, to do a teaching, a very important teaching linked
• 05:51 with Josiah and the last reformation.
• 05:52 Actually, the most pinnacle moment of Josiah's life happened
• 05:55 here, so we wanna go where it all began to, the actual place
• 05:58 where it went down.
• 05:59 And thank you, Jesus, we made it.
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• 06:21 Joshua: Betel, House of El.
• 06:23 No, we're not talking about Kal-El, House of El, like
• 06:25 in "Superman," we're talking about the house of God.
• 06:28 Caleb: Really, Kal-El?
• 06:30 He pulled a cheesy "Superman" joke, now we're gonna get sued
• 06:33 by Disney.
• 06:35 Joshua: Disney doesn't own DC.
• 06:37 Caleb: Nerd.
• 06:39 Joshua: It seems so quiet and serene up here on the top of
• 06:42 Bethel, while down below us a war has started in Israel,
• 06:46 they had checkpoints just to get here through the West Bank.
• 06:49 Continue to pray for Israel, we know this is airing later,
• 06:52 but we're sure this is going to change the landscape for a long
• 06:56 time to come.
• 06:57 Caleb: Speaking of landscape, we're pretty high up, you can't
• 06:59 tell, city's down below, but there's a reason people came
• 07:03 to this mountain, this elevated platform.
• 07:07 In Bethel, throughout the Bible times, there's many important
• 07:10 events that happened here.
• 07:11 You know the story of Jacob's ladder, he was traveling afar,
• 07:14 he laid his head down, he had a dream of a stairway that went up
• 07:17 to heaven, angels ascending and descending.
• 07:20 And not far from here was an altar that Abraham had built to
• 07:23 the Lord and sacrificed to God here, there's a lot that went
• 07:26 on here, but we, right now, are heading to a high place
• 07:29 behind us.
• 07:31 Joshua: Ugh, seriously, another high place?
• 07:34 Why didn't anybody commit an abomination and/or desolation
• 07:38 on a low place?
• 07:40 I don't like cardio, this is number 3,652 high place
• 07:43 that we have to go do something at, I don't know,
• 07:45 brother told me I had to do.
• 07:48 Caleb: Not your normal holy place, but a wicked high place,
• 07:51 join us as we tell that story.
• 07:57 Joshua: Uh, what are you doing, brother?
• 07:58 Caleb: Trying to hide in the shade, it's hot for us Jews out
• 08:01 here, there's murder bushes with spikes everywhere, but this is
• 08:05 the only shade in all the area, here at that Betel.
• 08:08 Joshua: Realize that that shade bush is literally not providing
• 08:13 any shade.
• 08:14 Caleb: It makes me feel good emotionally.
• 08:16 Joshua: Got some of those murder ants at your feet.
• 08:18 Caleb: Ugh.
• 08:21 Joshua: 2 Chronicles 34:6-7 says, "In the towns of Manasseh,
• 08:25 Ephraim and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins
• 08:29 of them, he," Josiah, "Tore down the altars and the Asherah poles
• 08:32 and crushed the idols to powder and cut to pieces all
• 08:36 the incense altars throughout Israel."
• 08:41 Joshua: Josiah traveled all around Israel's former
• 08:43 territories destroying the evil things that his brothers in
• 08:47 the Northern Kingdom of Israel had done as a way to break
• 08:50 the generational curses and atone for the sins.
• 08:53 Caleb: That's true, Josh.
• 08:54 You know, in this territory alone, there was a remnant
• 08:56 of Israelites.
• 08:58 I know that you guys know the ten lost tribes is a popular
• 09:01 moniker, they were taken captive by the Assyrians.
• 09:05 A remnant did survive in the territories, but when the
• 09:07 Assyrian Empire fell, some of them came back, and some of them
• 09:12 had intermarried with a nomad group of warlords
• 09:14 called the Scythians.
• 09:16 Well, when they returned, they found Beit She'an,
• 09:18 they renamed as Scythopolis, that became their capital.
• 09:21 And the Prophet Jeremiah said to Josiah, "Go back to these
• 09:26 people, and speak a message of reconciliation."
• 09:29 Jeremiah went there many times with a message from the Lord,
• 09:32 saying, "Repent, God wants you to turn back to him," and this
• 09:35 is even detailed by the Jewish historian Josephus in his book,
• 09:39 "Antiquities of the Jews."
• 09:43 Caleb: In Josephus's "Antiquities of the Jews,"
• 09:45 "After these things, Josiah went also to such other Israelites
• 09:49 as had escaped captivity and slavery under the Assyrians; and
• 09:53 persuaded them to desist from their impious practices, and to
• 09:56 leave off the honors they paid to strange gods; but to worship
• 09:59 rightly their own Almighty God, and adhere to Him."
• 10:04 Caleb: Well, you know, these former Israelites were loyal to
• 10:08 King Josiah during his lifetime, but upon his death,
• 10:12 they traveled back to the North, to the regions which would be
• 10:15 Russia today, and they were trying to escape the coming
• 10:18 of Babylon.
• 10:19 But this story, this location here is very important, it harks
• 10:23 back again to King Solomon, as we spoke before, how he fell
• 10:26 into the sin of idolatry.
• 10:28 Because of his idolatry and his rebellion against God, God told
• 10:31 him he would split the kingdom from him, he would tear it
• 10:34 in half, ten tribes to the North.
• 10:36 God chose a man named Jeroboam bin Nebat to be the king
• 10:40 of the North.
• 10:41 Well, Jeroboam bin Nebat, he lived a sketchy life, one that
• 10:44 you would not want to follow, he became the pinnacle example of
• 10:47 sin for all the kings of Israel to follow from that point on.
• 10:51 Caleb: Just like with Manasseh and the kings of Judah,
• 10:54 how would you like to be the dude, the worst,
• 10:57 most ultimate failure of all kings in the history of Israel?
• 11:00 I mean, there's a reason why the name Jeroboam never hit
• 11:04 the top-10 baby name list since 931 BC.
• 11:07 Joshua: Oof, well, in order to keep the people from returning
• 11:10 to the temple to worship God and thus having their loyalties be
• 11:14 to the Southern countries, he decided to erect a plan,
• 11:18 he decided to build two high places, one in Bethel
• 11:21 and one in Dan.
• 11:22 And in these places, he put up two golden calves, and then led
• 11:26 the Israelites, as their high priest, to worship them,
• 11:29 and it literally happened right there.
• 11:33 Caleb: That's it.
• 11:34 Joshua: And guys, this is where the story gets really crazy,
• 11:37 1 Kings 13:1-2.
• 11:41 Caleb: Follow along.
• 11:42 Joshua: Let's do it.
• 11:44 Joshua: "By the word of the Lord a man of God came from Judah
• 11:47 to Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make
• 11:50 an offering.
• 11:52 By the word of the Lord he cried out against the altar:
• 11:54 'Altar, altar!
• 11:55 This is what the Lord says: A son named Josiah will be born
• 11:59 to the house of David.
• 12:00 On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who
• 12:03 make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.'"
• 12:09 Joshua: What?
• 12:10 He calls Josiah by name.
• 12:13 Now, according to Josephus, this unnamed man of God was called
• 12:17 Jadon, but he made this prophecy 361 years before Josiah
• 12:22 would ever come on the scene.
• 12:24 Caleb: That blows my mind, guys.
• 12:25 And here is where the high place was, right behind us, and here
• 12:30 the Altar of Jeroboam, this is where it went down.
• 12:32 Now, as the story continues, you would expect that Jeroboam
• 12:36 was not too pleased with that prophecy, he was angry,
• 12:39 he stretched out his hand and he cried, "Seize him."
• 12:42 And as soon as he did, his hand withered up into a skeleton,
• 12:46 lifeless, and at that moment, a great earthquake came,
• 12:49 it split the Altar of Jeroboam in half just as the prophet
• 12:52 had declared.
• 12:53 So he whimpers, remorseful, knowing he's been caught,
• 12:56 only remorseful that he's been caught.
• 12:58 He said, "Man of God, please intercede to the Lord on
• 13:00 my behalf, heal my arm."
• 13:02 Jadon interceded, and immediately his hand was
• 13:04 restored to normal flesh again.
• 13:07 Jeroboam says, "Come home with me, I'm gonna give you a feast,
• 13:10 I'm gonna give you so many rewards because you spoke
• 13:13 the word of the Lord."
• 13:14 But Jadon said, "No, God has commanded me that I must return
• 13:17 back to the territory of Judah the same way I came,
• 13:20 and I cannot eat or drink with any man."
• 13:23 So Jadon leaves, he heads back on the road.
• 13:25 And there's a wicked false prophet nearby who hears about
• 13:28 what happened, he saddles up his donkey, he rides out as fast
• 13:31 as he can, he catches Jadon on the road.
• 13:33 He said, "Man of God, I heard about these amazing things
• 13:35 you did.
• 13:37 How about you come home with me?
• 13:38 I'm gonna give you a great meal."
• 13:39 But the man of God, Jadon, said, "No, the Lord commanded me
• 13:42 I cannot eat or drink, but I must return the same road
• 13:45 to Judah that I came."
• 13:46 He said, "No, I'm also a prophet of the Lord."
• 13:48 He was a false prophet under the employ of Jeroboam.
• 13:52 He said, "I heard from God, and he said that it's okay now,
• 13:54 you can come with me and we can have a meal."
• 13:57 Jadon did not inquire of God, instead he listened to him
• 14:01 and went home with him, and this is what Scripture says happened
• 14:04 to him.
• 14:05 1 Kings 13:20-22, "While they were sitting at the table,
• 14:10 the word of the Lord came to the old [false] prophet
• 14:12 who had brought him back.
• 14:14 He cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah,
• 14:17 'This is what the Lord says: "You have defied the word
• 14:19 of the Lord and have not kept the command
• 14:21 of the Lord your God gave you.
• 14:23 You came back and ate bread and drink water in the place where
• 14:25 he told you not to eat or drink.
• 14:27 Therefore your body will not be buried in the tomb
• 14:31 of your ancestors.'"
• 14:32 Caleb: Wow, that's like the worst.
• 14:34 Joshua: I never have liked hanging out
• 14:36 in those false prophet homes.
• 14:38 Caleb: You know, guys, Jadon was given a donkey from that false
• 14:42 prophet, and he went on his way on the road, he knew
• 14:47 he disobeyed God, he didn't know how quickly judgment would come
• 14:50 upon him, because, as he was traveling back to his home,
• 14:53 guess what?
• 14:54 A lion leaped out of nowhere, attacked him and killed
• 14:56 him instantly.
• 14:58 And this was heard by the false prophet, and so he saddled
• 15:01 another donkey, he rode out as fast as he could, he found the
• 15:04 dead body of Jadon lying there, the lion sitting right here,
• 15:09 and the donkey sitting right here untouched.
• 15:11 So the false prophet took the body of Jadon, saddled
• 15:14 on his donkey, rode back to his own sepulcher, his own grave,
• 15:17 and he buried him in his own sepulcher.
• 15:21 Caleb: 1 Kings 13:31-32, "After burying him, he said to his
• 15:26 sons, 'When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God
• 15:30 is buried; lay my bones besides his bones.
• 15:33 For the message he declared by the word of the Lord against the
• 15:36 altar in Bethel and against all the shrines in the high places
• 15:39 in the towns of Samaria will certainly come true.'"
• 15:44 Joshua: This verse, this scenario has always
• 15:47 terrified me, the high price you pay for disobedience to God.
• 15:51 Here you have this false prophet who's like, "I don't want Josiah
• 15:54 to show up one day and desecrate my bones.
• 15:56 I got an idea, I'm gonna take a real man of God, Jadon,
• 15:59 and I'm gonna put my bones right next to his bones."
• 16:01 And sure enough, Josiah shows up, just as prophesied, he's
• 16:05 killing the evil priest, he's tearing down Jeroboam's altar.
• 16:09 And then, 2 Kings 23:16-18, "Then Josiah looked around,
• 16:17 when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had
• 16:20 the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile
• 16:22 it, in accordance with the word the Lord proclaimed by the man
• 16:25 of God who foretold these things.
• 16:26 The king asked, 'What is this tombstone I see?'
• 16:30 The people of the city said, 'It marks the tomb of the man of God
• 16:32 who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar
• 16:35 of Bethel the very things you have done to it.'
• 16:37 'Leave it alone,' he said, 'Don't let anyone disturb
• 16:40 his bones.'"
• 16:43 Caleb: Scripture goes on to say that Josiah continues his work
• 16:46 through the territory of Israel, killing the evil priests,
• 16:49 burning their bones upon the altar.
• 16:51 He fulfilled the word of the Lord just as described.
• 16:54 But the power of this story is that pinnacle moment, Josh,
• 16:58 that moment where he realized this was his destiny that
• 17:01 God called him to accomplish.
• 17:03 Joshua: I get this sense that Josiah dealt with the feeling
• 17:06 of inadequacy, we probably feel this a lot in our lives,
• 17:09 like no matter how much we've done, it's never enough,
• 17:12 but I believe in this one moment, this one event,
• 17:15 Josiah finally finds his peace.
• 17:17 Caleb: That's right, just as with King Cyrus, who would come
• 17:20 in the future and, God would call him by name hundreds of
• 17:23 years before he would show up with Josiah, God was trying to
• 17:26 tell him something, that he was chosen, that he was special,
• 17:30 that God really did love him, and that it wasn't a personal
• 17:34 offense that got held against them when Jeremiah
• 17:35 would continue to prophesy doom and destruction.
• 17:40 It was an ever present warning for the people to live soberly,
• 17:43 always awaiting the coming of Babylon.
• 17:45 But you don't need to fear of becoming a Babylon, but we are
• 17:50 to live soberly, always being ready in our hearts for
• 17:53 the coming of our Lord Yeshua, who will call us up to be
• 17:57 with him in the clouds.
• 17:58 Joshua: It was always hard for me growing up to look at the
• 18:00 lives of the men and women in the Bible, the ones that all
• 18:03 the stories and felt boards are about, and watch them lament
• 18:06 how ineffective they were when they finally passed on.
• 18:09 And I had to look at my life and go, "I haven't done a fraction
• 18:12 of anything that these guys have done."
• 18:15 Caleb: Well, Luke chapter 12, guys, verse 4 through 7 says,
• 18:20 I say to you, "My friends, you shall not be afraid of those
• 18:23 who kill the body, since after this they have nothing more
• 18:25 they can do.
• 18:27 But I will show you whom you should fear.
• 18:29 Fear of the One who, after the killing, has authority to cast
• 18:32 into Gehenna (hell).
• 18:34 Yes, I tell you, fear this One!
• 18:36 Aren't five sparrows being sold for two pennies?
• 18:39 Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.
• 18:42 Indeed, even the hairs of your head numbered.
• 18:44 So do not fear; you are more valuable than any sparrows."
• 18:49 Joshua: Probably the easiest thing for someone to do in their
• 18:51 life is to escape God's calling.
• 18:53 No, I don't think you ran off and tried to find your own
• 18:56 Nineveh or a giant fish ate you, but it's easy for us to just
• 19:00 blend into the background, to assimilate ourselves into
• 19:02 the giant machine of life, we just sit on that conveyor belt
• 19:05 and let us take us wherever it wants to go.
• 19:08 The problem is, is you're an individual who is created
• 19:11 for a very specific, individual purpose.
• 19:13 Now, I know you're probably saying, "Guys, I've heard that
• 19:16 in Sunday school my whole life, but what does it really
• 19:18 even mean?"
• 19:19 Well, what it means is that there is an exact point
• 19:23 and purpose for you.
• 19:25 Too often, we get caught up in the fears of what if, "What if
• 19:29 I don't figure out God's plan, what if I make the wrong
• 19:31 mistake, what if I do this, what if I do this?"
• 19:33 And the, what ifs lead us into the most dangerous position
• 19:36 that anybody can be in in life?
• 19:37 Ineffectiveness, Satan would love that, he'd love for you
• 19:41 to sit down and just be ineffective, he doesn't need you
• 19:43 to go out there and harm people or to commit all these sins,
• 19:47 he doesn't want you to fulfill what you were supposed to do.
• 19:51 Now, when we try to rationalize God and his perspective on our
• 19:54 life, and ask him why we should be doing it as opposed to just
• 19:57 being obedient to what we're supposed to do,
• 19:59 that's another way he stops us.
• 20:01 Our job is to say, "Speak, Lord, your servant is listening,
• 20:05 here I am, Lord, use me."
• 20:07 When we make ourselves available to his plan and to his path, it
• 20:10 does not matter what the enemy throws at us, it doesn't matter
• 20:14 how big the plan may look, if we allow the Father to guide
• 20:19 one step at a time, through our permission and our stepping out
• 20:22 in faith, that obedience kicks in.
• 20:25 And at the end, when you look back at your life, there won't
• 20:28 be regret, there won't be lament, but you will look back
• 20:32 and then look forward, and you'll hear those words that
• 20:35 every man and woman in history has longed to hear, "Well done,
• 20:40 my good and faithful servant."
• 20:46 Joshua: [Speaking in Hebrew].
• 20:58 Caleb: "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
• 21:02 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart
• 21:06 and with all your soul and with all your strength."
• 21:10 ♪♪♪
• 21:15 Caleb: We're here on the set of Iran Alive Ministries
• 21:20 with Dr. Hormoz Shariat.
• 21:22 It's such a blessing to be with you, you are the Billy Graham
• 21:25 of Iran.
• 21:26 I know you don't call yourself that, but we like to call you
• 21:28 that because you've led so many souls to the gospel in Iran.
• 21:31 Dr Hormoz Shariat: All by grace of God and the power
• 21:33 of the gospel.
• 21:34 Caleb: That's right.
• 21:36 Dr Shariat: You know, Paul says, "I'm not ashamed of the gospel,
• 21:38 because of power."
• 21:39 So, if you share it, you will see that power.
• 21:42 Joshua: I love that.
• 21:43 One of the things that I have seen in my life, I've been very
• 21:46 blessed, I've traveled all over the world, and I've gotten to
• 21:49 meet great men and women of God on the tail end of their lives,
• 21:54 but there's this love and joy that just shines
• 21:58 through their faces, and it's in your face as well.
• 22:00 And I think we talk about revival so much in life, today,
• 22:03 within the body of Christ, as it's this magic thing
• 22:06 that's gonna happen, "When revival hits,
• 22:08 it's gonna change everything."
• 22:10 But when I look at it, it seems like there's a change that needs
• 22:14 to happen in us first that then spawns that, what brings about
• 22:17 that change in our lives to see that outpouring of God.
• 22:21 Dr Shariat: Well, to get to that joy, you have to know
• 22:25 the meaning of sorrow, and experience hopelessness
• 22:29 and sorrow, and that's what revival in Iran is all about.
• 22:32 And many revivals in history, you see that, people come to
• 22:35 a point of brokenness and desperation, and that's where
• 22:39 God starts raising up, first a group of people,
• 22:43 but then the whole nation.
• 22:45 And in Iran, people after 40-some years of experiencing
• 22:50 Islam, and remembering, some of them, the time of Shah,
• 22:53 they have come to conclusion that Islam is not the way,
• 22:57 it's our problem and we need to get rid of it.
• 22:59 So, this Islamic rule has been oppressive, has been violent,
• 23:04 killed many, many.
• 23:05 In the eighties, they killed not just in the war, but they killed
• 23:09 over 20,000 people in three days who were in jail.
• 23:14 And so the people are sick, the Iranians are sick and tired
• 23:18 of current situation, probably that's the keyword,
• 23:21 sick and tired of current situation.
• 23:24 And that even applies to us, it applies to me.
• 23:28 When I get sick and tired of something in myself,
• 23:31 that's when I'm ready to change.
• 23:33 You said, "Why am I like this?
• 23:35 I hate it, I don't want this."
• 23:37 So it's the same with nations, they come to a point that they
• 23:40 get sick and tired of current situation, and even themselves,
• 23:43 and that's when the Spirit of God moves,
• 23:46 and that's a base for revival.
• 23:48 That has happened in Iran, and I think that the US is moving in
• 23:52 that direction, the US is going down in many ways, culturally,
• 23:57 socially, value system, everything, even economy.
• 24:02 And I think as US goes down-- by the way, I don't believe
• 24:06 God is finished with US, I think US has had such
• 24:11 a positive influence for the Lord the last 100,
• 24:15 200 years, God is going to remember that.
• 24:18 So, it's not yet, Christianity is not yet dead in America,
• 24:23 it's going to have another revival, and maybe multiple,
• 24:27 but it's going to come when people come to a point.
• 24:31 Maybe this is, maybe prophetic, I don't know, but I think
• 24:35 the current trend in America is all downwards, how down it goes
• 24:41 we don't know, but I think it will go to a place where US will
• 24:44 have major economic problems, major social problems, value,
• 24:51 identity, identity crisis as a nation, I think that's
• 24:55 where we will see another revival in America.
• 25:00 Kirsten Hart: Something I so appreciate about this program is
• 25:04 I always learn something new, and today it came to life again,
• 25:10 that Josiah took this bone dust, he sprinkled it on all the
• 25:16 high places, these dead people, everywhere, so they wouldn't
• 25:18 go there.
• 25:20 First of all, I think that's brilliant, because it defiled
• 25:22 those high places, but that was pretty extreme, wasn't it?
• 25:26 Joshua: It's pretty hardcore.
• 25:27 Caleb: That's like literally putting pigs everywhere,
• 25:29 you know?
• 25:30 He was making sure it would not happen again, he was ensuring
• 25:32 the future was safe and secure, and little did he know
• 25:35 he was fulfilling a prophetic word, that God said he was gonna
• 25:38 do it someday.
• 25:40 And imagine, you know, you're doing all these reforms,
• 25:42 at the same time, here you have Jeremiah the prophet,
• 25:44 destruction is coming, doom is.
• 25:45 "You're like, God, why?
• 25:47 I'm doing what you told me to do."
• 25:48 But he finally had that peace, I believe, and he went home.
• 25:52 And we know according to the chronological teachings,
• 25:55 the prophecies of Jeremiah, that even after he went home,
• 25:58 Jeremiah still said, "Judgment is coming."
• 26:00 But I think he was at peace after that point when he heard
• 26:02 that God had ordained him for such a time as that,
• 26:05 it was amazing.
• 26:06 Kirsten: You just gave me goosebumps,
• 26:07 that's fantastic, unreal.
• 26:09 Joshua: Psalm 51:16-17 says, "For You will not delight in
• 26:13 sacrifice, or I would give it: You will not be pleased with
• 26:16 the burnt offering.
• 26:18 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken
• 26:21 and contrite heart.
• 26:22 O God, you will not despise."
• 26:24 Caleb: Wow, and that's who Josiah was, "shabar,"
• 26:27 broken in Hebrew, the broken spirit, ruach nishbara.
• 26:32 He was accessible to God, he was willing to be molded by God.
• 26:37 We get that same brokenness in Isaiah 61, where it's talking
• 26:42 about Messiah came to heal the brokenhearted.
• 26:45 It's not that God broke him, it's that circumstances
• 26:48 break us, guys, situations and sin, and all that, but God takes
• 26:53 that brokenness and he makes something new, and he heals
• 26:56 the brokenhearted, recovery of sight to the blind.
• 26:58 That's the kind of God we serve.
• 27:00 David Hart: The story we need to hear.
• 27:01 Caleb: Yes.
• 27:03 David: We'll be right back.
• 27:05 Joshua: In a world where sin runs rampant and idolatry
• 27:08 is your afternoon cup of tea, only one man has the courage
• 27:13 to stand up and blow it all to smithereens.
• 27:15 This summer, at your local cineplex, witness the ruggedly
• 27:19 handsome, supernaturally muscular physique of
• 27:21 a 20-year-old king who refuses to bow to your golden calf.
• 27:26 Meet King Josiah, idol smasher.
• 27:30 Caleb: Josh, it's a book, not a movie.
• 27:33 Joshua: Oh, get this amazing companion guide to our hit
• 27:38 series, "Josiah and The Last Reformation," with the epic
• 27:41 book, "Josiah and The Last Reformation."
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• 27:46 Kirsten: My father, Dave's father-in-law, just recently
• 27:50 passed away, and in his will, he has money going
• 27:55 to this ministry, to Zola Levitt Ministries.
• 27:58 So, I am thankful that, on his way to heaven,
• 28:01 he knew the importance of giving so that this program
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• 28:14 David: Guys, I can't believe it's time to go.
• 28:16 Joshua: It is.
• 28:17 So, as we leave, Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim.
• 28:18 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 28:23 David: Please remember,
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