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Episode: “Israel’s Neighbor States”
Israel will rally against its hostile neighbors; this part highlights Ezekiel’s predictions that larger regional forces will mobilize against Israel in a climactic war that they will lose.
Series: “Ezekiel and the MidEast “Piece” Process”
In this eight-part television series, Dr. Jeffrey Seif and Mrs. Sandra Levitt take viewers into one of the Bible’s most mysterious and fascinating books. Ezekiel forcefully predicts Israel’s re-emergence as a nation-state at “day’s end,” and prophesies that neighboring nation-states will marshal military resources to annihilate the fledgling state. Let’s consider pieces to Ezekiel’s end-time puzzle.

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Caption transcript for Ezekiel and the MidEast ‘Piece’ Process: “Israel’s Neighbor States” (5/8)

  • 00:04 WITH DR. JEFFREY SEIF AND SANDRA LEVITT
  • 00:10 THE LORD SAID UNTO EZEKIEL, "SON OF MAN, CAN THESE BONES LIVE?"
  • 00:21 PROPHECY UPON THESE BONES AND SAY UNTO THEM, "OH YE DRY BONES, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD."
  • 01:03 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
  • 01:05 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY CO-HOST, SANDRA LEVITT.
  • 01:08 SHALOM AND WELCOME BACK
  • 01:10 TO THE EZEKIEL SERIES.
  • 01:11 WE ARE LOOKING AT JUDGMENT
  • 01:13 AND GOD JUDGES THOSE NATIONS
  • 01:15 THAT COME AGAINST ISRAEL.
  • 01:17 YES WE SEE WHICH NATION'S BEING
  • 01:20 THE OBJECT OF HIS JUDGMENT.
  • 01:21 NOT ONLY IS ISRAEL JUDGED
  • 01:23 BUT GOD JUDGES THOSE THAT REALLY DO COME AGAINST ISRAEL.
  • 01:26 I'M SURE GOD DOESN'T LIKE PUTTING THE HANDCUFFS ON.
  • 01:30 AS A POLICE OFFICER I'VE DONE THAT ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION.
  • 01:33 AND I DON'T WANT TO SAY THAT GOD'S "JACKING UP" THE WORLD,
  • 01:36 BUT IN THIS PROGRAM WE SEE THROUGH EZEKIEL
  • 01:39 THAT THOSE HELL BENT ON ISRAEL'S DEMISE INCUR GOD'S WRATH.
  • 01:45 IT'S A STORY IN THE ANCIENT WORD, IT'S A STORY IN THE MODERN WORLD
  • 01:50 AND TO THAT STORY WE GO NOW AS WE CONTINUE WITH EZEKIEL AND THE MIDEAST PIECE PROCESS.
  • 02:01 IN 586 B.C. THE LORD SPOKE UNTO EZEKIEL,
  • 02:04 "SET THY FACE AGAINST PHARAOH AND PROPHECY AGAINST ALL EGYPT"
  • 02:10 "SAY, "THUS SAYETH THE LORD GOD, BEHOLD I AM AGAINST THEE"
  • 02:16 "ALL THE INHABITANTS OF EGYPT SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD"
  • 02:20 "BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN A STAFF OF REED TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL"
  • 02:23 "AND THE LAND OF EGYPT SHALL BE DESOLATE
  • 02:26 AND WASTE IN THE MIDST OF THE COUNTRIES THAT ARE DESOLATE"
  • 02:30 "NEITHER SHALL IT BE INHABITED 40 YEARS."
  • 02:37 WE DIDN'T CREATE THIS PICTURE YOU'RE SEEING.
  • 02:40 WE JUST WALKED INTO IT AND WHAT A SIGHT IT IS.
  • 02:42 THE PROPHET EZEKIEL SAYS LIKE THIS TOWN HERE, THAT NATIONS STATES THAT BORDER ISRAEL
  • 02:49 ARE GOING TO BE DEVASTATED.
  • 02:51 AND WHY IS THAT?
  • 02:53 BECAUSE THERE IS A JUDGMENT BROUGHT TO BEAR FOR THEIR SINS AGAINST GOD,
  • 02:56 FOR THEIR SINS AGAINST ISRAEL.
  • 02:58 AND THE LORD IS NOT A HAPPY CAMPER.
  • 03:00 EIGHT CHAPTERS ARE INVESTED IN TELLING THAT STORY.
  • 03:04 AND EZEKIEL'S NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO DOES IT.
  • 03:07 ISAIAH HAS EIGHT CHAPTERS, JEREMIAH HAS SIX;
  • 03:11 THERE'S 22 CHAPTERS THAT DESCRIBE WHAT WILL COME OF THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL
  • 03:18 IN THE DAY WHEN GOD BRINGS HIS JUDGMENT TO BEAR.
  • 03:21 IF YOU THINK OF THE NEW TESTAMENT THERE'S 4 GOSPELS,
  • 03:23 THERE'S MORE TEXT TALKING ABOUT THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL
  • 03:28 THAN 2 OF THE GOSPELS.
  • 03:30 AND ITS EQUIVALENT TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
  • 03:32 THERE'S A LOT AND I WANT TO EXAMINE IT WITH YOU AS WE CONSIDER THE STORY.
  • 03:37 IF YOU'LL OPEN YOUR BIBLES PLEASE TO EZEKIEL, CHAPTER 25.
  • 03:41 PICKING UP IN VERSE 1:
  • 03:44 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 03:47 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME SAYING,
  • 03:50 "BEN ADAM", "SON OF MAN"
  • 03:53 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 03:57 "SET YOUR FACE TOWARD THE CHILDREN OF AMMON."
  • 04:02 NOW HE'S GOING TO BEGIN WITH THE AMMONITES JUST TO THE EAST.
  • 04:05 HE'S GOING TO THEN GO FROM THERE TO THE MOABITES GOING EAST OF THE JORDAN
  • 04:13 BEGINNING WITH THE AMMONITES, THE MOABITES TO THE EDOMITES;
  • 04:17 THEN HE'S GOING TO GO AROUND TO THE WEST TO PHILISTIA
  • 04:22 WHERE THE MODERN GAZA AREA IS INTERESTINGLY.
  • 04:26 HE'S GOING TO LOOP AROUND ISRAEL AND GO NORTH FURTHER INTO WHAT WOULD BE MODERN LEBANON
  • 04:32 IN PROPHESYING AGAINST TYRE AND SIDON.
  • 04:35 IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT THEN THEY'LL BE A LOT OF TEXT INVESTED AGAINST EGYPT.
  • 04:42 WHAT A STORY!
  • 04:43 HERE WE'RE JUST BEGINNING WHEN HE SAYS
  • 04:45 "SON OF MAN, SET YOUR FACE TOWARD THE CHILDREN OF AMMON"
  • 04:50 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 04:53 "AND PROPHECY AGAINST THEM"
  • 04:56 AND WHAT'S THE WORD IN VERSE 3?
  • 04:58 ALAS
  • 05:05 BECAUSE YOU WERE HELL BENT ON THE PEOPLE AND THE RELIGION SO IT IS GOD'S NOT A HAPPY CAMPER.
  • 05:10 HE'S GOING TO BRING HIS FORCE TO BEAR
  • 05:12 AND THERE WILL BE A RECKONING.
  • 05:13 IN VERSE 7 HE SAYS:
  • 05:25 THEY MOLESTED GOD'S PEOPLE AND THE NET RESULT IS THEY'LL BE JUDGED ACCORDINGLY,
  • 05:31 AND NOT JUST THEM.
  • 05:32 WE MOVE ON TO VERSES 8 AND ON, WE LEAVE AMMON, WE GO TO MOAB PARTICULARLY.
  • 05:40 AND HE SAYS:
  • 05:44 THEY'LL BE OPENED UP AND DESTROYED IN VERSE 9.
  • 05:47 IN VERSE 11 HE SAYS:
  • 05:52 IN VERSE 12 THEN,
  • 05:57 AND SO IT IS HE SAYS IN VERSE 13:
  • 06:06 THERE IS A DAY OF RECKONING.
  • 06:08 WHAT HAPPENS IS WHEN IS ISRAEL WAS RECONSTITUTED AS A NATIONSTATE
  • 06:11 THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT TRIED TO PREVENT IT.
  • 06:14 AND THEN UNABLE TO PREVENT IT THEN THEY MOBILIZED ENERGIES TO TRY AND DESTROY IT.
  • 06:19 THERE WAS SUCCESSION OF WARS, BUT TO NO AVAIL, GOD GAVE ISRAEL VICTORY.
  • 06:23 ABSENT BEING ABLE TO THEN TAKE TO THE FIELD WITH CONVENTIONAL ARMIES WE HAVE ALL THIS,
  • 06:30 THE WAR IN THE PRESS AND TERRORISM
  • 06:33 AND PEOPLE INVESTING THEIR ANGST AGAINST UNARMED CIVILIANS.
  • 06:36 GOD IS NOT A HAPPY CAMPER.
  • 06:38 AND WHAT HAPPENS IS ALL THIS COMES TO AN END.
  • 06:40 SPEAKING OF COMING TO AN END, BEFORE I BRING THE SEGMENT TO AN END,
  • 06:45 YOU'LL FIND IN VERSE 15 INTERESTINGLY WHERE HE SAYS:
  • 06:55 HE SAYS:
  • 07:01 NOW THOSE THAT OCCUPY PHILISTIA TODAY, WHAT WOULD BE GAZA,
  • 07:05 THESE AREN'T THE ACTUAL PHILISTINES OF A BYGONE ERA.
  • 07:08 ITS INTERESTING, HOWEVER, HOW THE PROPHET SEES TROUBLE ALL AROUND ISRAEL
  • 07:12 AND THIS, STRANGE AS IT MIGHT SOUND, IS ALL PART OF EZEKIEL'S MIDDLE EAST PIECE PROCESS
  • 07:19 AS HE LOOKS AT IT ONE PIECE OF JUDGMENT AT A TIME.
  • 07:24 AND THE LORD SPOKE UNTO EZEKIEL REGARDING THE FORTHCOMING JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM.
  • 07:32 "UTTER A PARABLE UNTO THE REBELLIOUS HOUSE"
  • 07:36 "GATHER THE GOOD PIECES OF MEAT AND FILL THE POT WITH THE CHOICE BONES AND MAKE IT BOIL WELL."
  • 07:48 RARELY DO MY EYES ALIGHT UPON SUCH NOTHINGNESS, SUCH BARRENNESS.
  • 07:54 YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE ME, BUT THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
  • 07:57 ONE DAY THIS PART OF THE WORLD WILL BECOME LIKE EDEN.
  • 08:02 IT'LL BE LUSH, VERDANT, A PLACE OF LIFE.
  • 08:06 WELL THAT BELONGS TO DAYS FORWARD, NOT THE PRESENT.
  • 08:11 SO MUCH FOR THE GOOD IN THIS STORY, THERE'S DIFFERENT WORD PICTURES THAT EZEKIEL PAINTS.
  • 08:17 IN THE 24TH CHAPTER HE SEES A CALDRON AND HE SEES PIECES BEING PUT INTO THE CALDRON.
  • 08:24 AND WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THAT?
  • 08:26 HE SEES GOD'S WRATH COOKING AND HE SEES PEOPLE AS BEING PART OF THE STEW, A PERSON HERE,
  • 08:34 A PERSON THERE ARE THROWN INTO THAT AS HIS CUP OVERFLOWS, HIS CUP OF WRATH EVIDENCED BY THAT.
  • 08:43 IN THIS SEGMENT WE'RE LOOKING AT GOD'S JUDGMENT
  • 08:47 THAT'S BROUGHT TO BEAR ON THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL.
  • 08:51 HIS JUDGMENT WAS BROUGHT TO BEAR BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T CARE.
  • 08:55 THEY DIDN'T CARE TO SHARE, THEY WERE GREEDY, THEY WERE AVARICIOUS.
  • 08:58 AND WHAT HAPPENS IS GOD HAD A DAY IN COURT.
  • 09:01 WE'VE LOOKED BRIEFLY AT AMMON.
  • 09:04 WE'VE CONSIDERED AS WELL MOAB, EDOM AND BRIEFLY MADE MENTION OF PHILISTIA
  • 09:10 WHERE THE GAZA STRIP IS TODAY.
  • 09:12 WELL OUR PROPHET CONTINUES TO GO AROUND ISRAEL AND HE CONSIDERS TYRE.
  • 09:20 IN CHAPTER 26, VERSE 27 AND 28 THERE IS A FASCINATING STORY.
  • 09:26 A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF TEXT IS DEDICATED TO TELLING THE STORY OF JUDGMENT
  • 09:34 THAT WILL BEFALL THAT PART OF THE WORLD WHERE WE HAVE LEBANON TODAY.
  • 09:38 IT'S A FASCINATING STORY NOT JUST BECAUSE JUDGMENT IS BROUGHT TO BEAR
  • 09:43 BUT THAT IN THE PROCESS OF DISCUSSING THE JUDGMENT
  • 09:47 THE LORD ALIGHTS UPON A FIGURE OF THE DEVIL, FOR MY MONEY UNDERSCORING THE DEMONIC
  • 09:56 THAT SEEMS TO INFORM AND INFLAME THE WORLD AROUND THIS PART OF THE WORLD.
  • 10:04 WELL SO MUCH FOR TALKING ABOUT THE TEXT.
  • 10:06 HERE I WANT YOU TO HEAR IT IF YOU'D OPEN UP TO CHAPTER 28, VERSE 1 IN EZEKIEL
  • 10:12 AS WE CONSIDER EZEKIEL AND THE MIDEAST PIECE PROCESS.
  • 10:16 JUDGMENT BROUGHT TO BEAR HERE IS ONE OF THE PIECES TO THE PUZZLE.
  • 10:21 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 10:25 AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME SAYING, "SON OF MAN."
  • 10:30 SPEAKING TO THE PRINCE OF TYRE HE SAYS:
  • 10:46 YOU MIGHT RECALL RAV SHAOUL, THE APOSTLE PAUL, SAYING AS MUCH OF THE ANTI-MESSIAH
  • 10:52 THAT HE PROCLAIMS THAT HE'S GOD AND HE TAKES HIS SEAT IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD.
  • 10:56 WELL ACCORDING TO EZEKIEL,
  • 10:58 NEVER MIND THIS PERSON TAKING HIS SEAT IN A RE-MANUFACTURED HOUSE OF GOD,
  • 11:05 THIS PERSONALITY GOES BACK TO EDEN WHERE IT ALL RAN AWRY
  • 11:10 AND THIS IS WHERE WE GET THE STORY OF THE DEVIL ONCE A COVERING ANGEL
  • 11:16 WHO'S CAST OUT OF PARADISE.
  • 11:18 THAT'S NOT JUST FANCIFUL PREACHING, ITS IN THE TEXT.
  • 11:22 WELL, HE GOES ON IN VERSE 12 TO DESCRIBE THIS PERSONALITY,
  • 11:28 THIS KING OF TYRE WHO THINKS HE'S PERFECT.
  • 11:30 IN VERSE 13 EZEKIEL SAYS:
  • 11:39 THIS MADE MAN, THIS PERSONALITY THAT HAD EVERYTHING,
  • 11:42 THIS PERSON WHO WAS BEAUTIFUL BUT THEN HE WAS CORRUPTED BECAUSE OF HIS BEAUTY,
  • 11:48 BECAUSE OF HIS SPLENDOR AND WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 16:
  • 11:54 AND IN VERSE 17 THE WORD IS:
  • 12:03 THERE AMIDST THESE GLISTENING JEWELS, THIS PERSONALITY COMES TO AN INGLORIOUS END.
  • 12:09 NOW THIS IS PART OF GOD'S WEIGHING IN AGAINST THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL
  • 12:15 BUT ITS NOT JUST THAT FOR HERE IN THE TEXT EVIL IS DESCRIBED, PERSONIFIED AS DEMONIC.
  • 12:27 THE EVIL THAT GOES BACK TO THE VERY BEGINNING OF TIME
  • 12:32 IT SEEMS IS GOING TO RE-MANIFEST AT THE EDGE OF TIME.
  • 12:35 AND THIS IS PART OF THE BIBLE STORY AND ITS PART OF EZEKIEL AND THE MIDEAST PIECE PROCESS.
  • 12:50 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY
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  • 13:02 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, "THE INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CHRISTIAN STUDIES" INCLUDES:
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  • 13:10 YOU MAY WANT JOIN US ON AN UPCOMING TOUR OF ISRAEL OR PETRA
  • 13:14 OR CRUISE THE MEDITERRANEAN, VISITING GREECE AND EPHESUS.
  • 13:17 PLEASE CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION.
  • 13:20 HEY YOU LIKE THIS GUYS?
  • 13:21 YEAH!!!
  • 13:22 JOIN US IN ISRAEL FOR A TRIP OF A LIFETIME.
  • 13:27 MY FATHER'S COME 5 TIMES BEFORE
  • 13:29 AND LOVES ISRAEL.
  • 13:30 AND THIS IS MY 1ST TIME AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW,
  • 13:35 BEYOND WORDS THE MEANING OF COMING HOME.
  • 13:38 IT'S BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION
  • 13:41 AND I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THIS,
  • 13:44 I NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE LIKE THIS.
  • 13:46 AND THE EXPERIENCE HAS TO BE HAD IN PERSON.
  • 13:51 ISRAEL IS A LAND OF MANY CONTRASTS,
  • 13:54 DESTRUCTION AND BEAUTY.
  • 13:56 WE SEE THE RUINS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO BUT WE ALSO SEE THE BEAUTY THAT IS TODAY.
  • 14:02 I KNOW THAT JEFF AND I WOULD LOVE TO SHOW YOU ISRAEL.
  • 14:06 YES THERE'S SO MUCH WE WANT TO SHOW YOU.
  • 14:08 NOT EVERYONE CAN GO TO ISRAEL WITH US
  • 14:10 AND 30 MINUTES ON A TELEVISION PROGRAM
  • 14:13 JUST DOESN'T SEEM ENOUGH AT ONE LEVEL.
  • 14:15 REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS PROGRAM
  • 14:18 BUT IF YOU'D LIKE TO GO TO LEVITT.COM
  • 14:22 WE CAN SPEND HOURS TOGETHER.
  • 14:24 AND WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT?
  • 14:26 THROUGH THE MIRACLE THAT IS THE INTERNET, TO QUOTE,
  • 14:30 "INFORMATION HIGHWAY,"
  • 14:31 WE CAN COME YOUR WAY WITH NEWS INCLUDING PAST PROGRAMS,
  • 14:36 INCLUDING UP TO DATE ARTICLES SOME OF WHICH
  • 14:40 ARE PRINTED IN THE MAGAZINE
  • 14:42 THAT'S AVAILABLE TO YOU JUST FOR THE ASKING WHICH YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR ON THE INTERNET.
  • 14:47 BUT OF COURSE THIS IS LIMITED TOO WITH JUST 30 SOME PAGES.
  • 14:50 WE HAVE ARCHIVED MANY ARTICLES ON LEVITT.COM.
  • 14:54 OURS IS A PREACHING AND TEACHING MINISTRY.
  • 14:57 WE PURVEY INFORMATION THAT LEADS TO TRANSFORMATION.
  • 15:01 IF YOU WANT YOUR WORLD LIT UP, LET IT BE LIT BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
  • 15:07 AS YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD, AS YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORD,
  • 15:11 WHICH REMINDS ME, IN THIS SERIES THE PROGRAM OFFER IS
  • 15:16 "DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH."
  • 15:20 ITS ANOTHER STORY FROM ANOTHER PROPHET.
  • 15:23 AND NOW OFF TO THE PROPHET EZEKIEL WE GO AS WE CONSIDER OUR JOURNEY INTO THE ANCIENT WORD.
  • 15:32 THE LORD SPOKE UNTO EZEKIEL AND TOLD HIM TO MARK TWO ROADS FOR THE APPROACHING KING OF BABYLON.
  • 15:39 ONE OF THE ROAD SIGNS WOULD POINT TO AMMON, THE OTHER TO JERUSALEM.
  • 15:44 NEBUCHADNEZZAR WOULD IN FACT CHOOSE TO MARCH AGAINST JERUSALEM
  • 15:48 AND GOD WOULD CONDONE IT AS JUDGMENT AGAINST JERUSALEM'S TRANSGRESSIONS.
  • 15:53 IN TIME, HOWEVER, GOD'S WRATH WOULD ALSO BE TURNED TOWARDS AMMON.
  • 16:03 IN ANOTHER LIFE AS A POLICE OFFICER I HAD AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO STAND IN AN INTERSECTION
  • 16:07 AND DECIDE WHO GOES AND DECIDE WHO COMES AND I'D TELL PEOPLE "HURRY UP AND MAKE THAT TURN!"
  • 16:13 WELL IN CHAPTER 21 OF EZEKIEL THE PROPHETS SEES HIMSELF,
  • 16:17 OR HE SEES AN INTERSECTION WHERE SOMEONE HAS TO DECIDE WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO GO
  • 16:22 BUT IN THAT CASE WHEREVER THEY GO WHAT'S ON THE MENU IS TO GO
  • 16:26 AND TO RAPE, TO KILL AND TO PLUNDER.
  • 16:29 AND WHY IS THAT?
  • 16:30 BECAUSE THE ENGINES OF WAR ARE TURNED ON.
  • 16:34 GOD'S JUDGMENT IS BROUGHT TO BEAR AGAINST ISRAEL BECAUSE OF ISRAEL'S SINS.
  • 16:38 GOD'S JUDGMENT IS BROUGHT TO BEAR AGAINST THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL.
  • 16:43 GOD IS SHOWING HIMSELF TOUGH.
  • 16:46 WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT EZEKIEL ISN'T JUST THAT GOD SHOWS HIMSELF TOUGH
  • 16:50 BUT THE RESTORATION MOTIF, BUT I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF A LITTLE HERE.
  • 16:54 I WANT YOU TO LOOK IN CHAPTER 29 OF EZEKIEL WITH ME.
  • 16:57 WE'RE LOOKING IN VERSE 2, BUT GOING UP TO IT.
  • 17:02 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 17:05 THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME SAYING,
  • 17:07 "BEN ADAM,"
  • 17:09 "SON OF MAN"
  • 17:11 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 17:15 SET YOUR FACE AGAINST PHARAOH, KING OF EGYPT
  • 17:19 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 17:23 AND PROPHECY AGAINST HIM
  • 17:25 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 17:27 AND AGAINST ALL EGYPT AND SAY,
  • 17:30 "THUS SAYETH THE LORD"
  • 17:33 WHAT DOES HE SAY?
  • 17:34 HE SAYS WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR.
  • 17:36 HE SAYS, QUOTE IN VERSE 3,
  • 17:41 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 17:44 "I AM AGAINST THEE PHARAOH, KING OF EGYPT"
  • 17:48 AND HE SAYS IN VERSE 4:
  • 17:54 WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THAT?
  • 17:56 HE COMPARES HIM IN VERSE 3 TO
  • 18:00 HERE IN THE JEWISH TRANSLATION,
  • 18:02 BETTER, A CROCODILE.
  • 18:04 THERE'S A CROC IN THE NILE AND WHAT HAPPENS, THE LORD SAYS I'M GOING COME AND GRAB YOU,
  • 18:08 PUT A HOOK IN YOU AND BRING YOU UP, TAKE YOU TO THE BANKS AND THROW YOU UPON THE DRY GROUND.
  • 18:14 THIS IS IMAGERY HERE OF EGYPT TAKING A HIT.
  • 18:20 WHAT'S INTERESTING IN EZEKIEL ALL THE NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL TAKE A HIT.
  • 18:26 THEY INVOKE GOD'S IRE AND THEY'RE JUDGED BECAUSE OF IT.
  • 18:30 WHY?
  • 18:32 BECAUSE THEY'RE HELL BENT ON MOLESTING ISRAEL AND THERE IS A DAY OF RECKONING,
  • 18:36 THERE IS A DAY IN COURT.
  • 18:38 GOD SAYS HE'S GOING TO SHOW HIMSELF STRONG ON BEHALF OF HIS PEOPLE AT DAYS END.
  • 18:44 TO QUOTE THEN IN VERSE 6,
  • 18:46 WHY DOES HE DO IT?
  • 18:47 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 18:59 I FIND IT FASCINATING PERSONALLY, SOME 90 TIMES IN EZEKIEL
  • 19:04 GOD WHO'S SHOWING HIMSELF TOUGH DOES SO IN ORDER THAT THE WORLD MIGHT KNOW HIM.
  • 19:13 WHILE GOD SHOWS HIMSELF TOUGH THE MIRACLE ISN'T AS MUCH IN THE TOUGHNESS
  • 19:18 AS MUCH AS IT IS IN THE WAY THAT GOD SHOWS HIMSELF GRACIOUS
  • 19:24 IN THE WAKE OF THE GREAT CONFLAGRATION.
  • 19:28 WHEN ONE LOOKS AT EZEKIEL AND THE MIDEAST PIECE PROCESS
  • 19:32 WE SEE THAT FOR EZEKIEL THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE, WHEN THEY LINE UP HE SEES WAR.
  • 19:38 IT HAD APPLICATIONS IN ANTIQUITY, IT HAS APPLICATIONS IN MODERNITY AS WELL.
  • 19:45 IT SEEMS THAT TENSIONS IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD REVOLVING AROUND ISRAEL
  • 19:49 PLAY THEMSELVES OUT "DOR LA DOR", FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
  • 19:54 AND NOT JUST IN THE EZEKIEL TEXT IN A BYGONE ERA.
  • 19:58 IF ONE LOOKS AT THE JOHANNINE REVELATION WRITTEN BY JOHN.
  • 20:03 JOHN THE REVELATOR ENVISIONS THAT AT DAYS END THERE'S A CLIMACTIC WAR
  • 20:08 AND IT CULMINATES WITH A COMPARABLE IMAGE.
  • 20:11 HE SEES HERE THE DEVIL AS A SERPENT, A SCALED CREATURE
  • 20:15 AND THE LORD TAKES IT BY THE THROAT AND DRAGS IT AND THROWS IT IN THE PIT.
  • 20:19 FINISHED!
  • 20:21 AND THEN THERE'S A CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES.
  • 20:24 (SPEAKING HEBREW)
  • 20:28 THERE'S THE SEASON THEN WHEN NATION WILL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION,
  • 20:32 NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANYMORE.
  • 20:36 WELL, WHEN WE LOOK AT EZEKIEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST PIECE PROCESS,
  • 20:42 THE STEPS TOWARD THE LASTING PEACE
  • 20:44 ENTAIL DISEQUILIBRIUM AS THE ENGINES OF WAR ARE TURNED UP.
  • 20:50 SO MUCH FOR THE BAD NEWS.
  • 20:52 AS WE FOLLOW THIS SERIES WE'LL CONSIDER THE GOOD NEWS
  • 20:56 AS GOD REJUVENATES A WORLD THAT'S DEVASTATED
  • 21:00 BY SOCIAL UNREST, POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND WAR.
  • 21:12 (INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
  • 21:53 SOCIAL UNREST, POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND WAR,
  • 21:58 EZEKIEL SPOKE ABOUT IT IN HIS DAY
  • 22:00 AND OTHERS ARE SPEAKING ABOUT IT IN OUR OWN.
  • 22:04 VERY GOOD.
  • 22:05 I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND AMERICA'S TRUTH FORUM,
  • 22:08 IT WAS A TERRORISM SYMPOSIUM.
  • 22:10 WE TALKED TO SEVERAL PEOPLE.
  • 22:12 I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY HEAR PEOPLE
  • 22:15 THAT IDENTIFY WHO THE TERRORISTS ARE.
  • 22:18 I ESPECIALLY ENJOYED TALKING TO A MAN
  • 22:21 BY THE NAME OF FRANK SALVATO
  • 22:23 AND I ASKED HIM,
  • 22:24 WHAT NATION DID HE FEAR THE MOST?
  • 22:26 THE ANSWER WAS NOT SURPRISING BUT THE INFORMATION HE HAD WAS JUST REALLY TERRIFIC.
  • 22:32 HERE IS FRANK SALVATO.
  • 22:35 IRAN COMES INTO MIND
  • 22:37 BECAUSE IT IS AT THIS POINT BEING CONTROLLED BY RADICAL FACTIONS.
  • 22:40 THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT THE 12TH IMAM, THE MAHDI WENT DOWN THE WELL,
  • 22:46 AND IT'S SUPPOSED TO COME BACK.
  • 22:47 AND MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD IS PAVING NEW PATHWAYS TO THIS WEALTH
  • 22:51 OF THE GREAT COMING BACK AND THE LIKE.
  • 22:55 THEY'RE A THREAT AND THEY'RE DANGEROUS
  • 22:58 BECAUSE THEY'RE MARCHING TOWARDS THE NUCLEAR WEAPON.
  • 23:02 DO YOU SEE THEM GOING TO ISRAEL WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
  • 23:05 I DO.
  • 23:06 REALLY, TRULY?
  • 23:07 ABSOLUTELY.
  • 23:09 I SEE THEM ACTUALLY LASHING OUT AGAINST ISRAEL WITH THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, CERTAINLY.
  • 23:13 BY THEMSELVES?
  • 23:14 DO THEY HAVE HELP FROM SOMEBODY ELSE OR OTHER COUNTRIES?
  • 23:17 WHEN WE LOOK AT IRAN WE LOOK AT THEIR VERY CLOSE RELATIONSHIP NOT ONLY WITH SYRIA
  • 23:23 BUT WITH SOME TERRORIST FACTIONS IN THE REGION.
  • 23:25 INTERESTINGLY THEY HAPPEN TO BE SHIITE BUT THEY'RE ALSO HELPING HAMAS
  • 23:29 WHICH HAPPENS TO BE SUNNI SO YOU SEE RADICAL
  • 23:32 ELEMENTS FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE ISLAMIC AISLE COMING TOGETHER
  • 23:36 TO LASH OUT AGAINST ISRAEL AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION AS WE SEE IT.
  • 23:43 WELL, WHERE DO THEY GET THEIR MONEY?
  • 23:45 WHERE DOES THIS MONEY COME FROM?
  • 23:46 WHERE DOES THEIR HELP COME FROM?
  • 23:48 THEY GET THEIR MONEY, IT'S PARTIALLY FROM OIL,
  • 23:51 ITS PARTIALLY FROM THE RELATIONSHIPS THEY HAVE WITH OTHER COUNTRIES
  • 23:56 AROUND THE WORLD.
  • 23:57 WE LIVE IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY NOW. >>RIGHT
  • 23:59 AND YOU LOOK AT COUNTRIES LIKE CHINA AND RUSSIA AND YOU SEE THE DEALS THEY ARE DOING.
  • 24:03 WE JUST SAW RUSSIA DELIVER NUCLEAR FUEL TO THEM UNDER THE GUISE OF...
  • 24:08 "YOU KNOW THIS WAY YOU WON'T HAVE TO MAKE IT YOURSELF"
  • 24:11 WELL ITS STILL A >>BUSINESS TRANSACTION. >>RIGHT
  • 24:12 SO WE'RE LOOKING AT MONEY COMING THROUGH THE GLOBAL ECONOMY INTO IRAN
  • 24:16 EVEN THOUGH WE'VE GOT SANCTIONS IN PLACE THERE'S STILL PLACES THAT DO BUSINESS WITH THEM
  • 24:20 SO THEY'RE NOT GOING TO HURT FOR IT.
  • 24:24 YOU KNOW ITS REALLY EXCEEDINGLY IRONIC IN LIGHT OF THE FACT
  • 24:27 THAT THE RUSSIANS ARE FACING IRANIAN BASED,
  • 24:31 IRANIAN FINANCED JIHADISTS IN CHECHNYA.
  • 24:34 RIGHT
  • 24:36 BUT THEY DON'T SEEM TO REALIZE THAT THEY ARE IN A CERTAIN SENSE
  • 24:39 HELPING FINANCE THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION BY AIDING THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM.
  • 24:45 FROM THE INFORMATION THAT I'VE HAD AND THAT'S BEEN SHARED WITH ME FOR 4 OR 5 YEARS,
  • 24:47 THE IRANIANS PROBABLY POSSESS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 2 AND 9 NUCLEAR WEAPONS AT THIS POINT.
  • 24:53 AIMED AT?
  • 24:54 AIMED AT ISRAEL AND PROBABLY POTENTIALLY THE UNITED STATES.
  • 24:58 THE IRANIANS FUNDED A.Q. KHAN LABORATORIES, A.Q. KHAN WAS NOTHING BUT AT METALLURGIST.
  • 25:06 BUT HE DID, HE IS THE FATHER OF THE BOMB, THEIR BOMB.
  • 25:13 AND IN RETURN FOR THE INVESTMENT YOU COULD REST ASSURED
  • 25:17 THAT THEY WERE PROVIDED WITH MATERIALS, TECHNOLOGY AND WEAPONRY.
  • 25:22 HAVING CONSIDERED WHAT SOME EXPERTS ARE SAYING ABOUT TERRORISM TODAY
  • 25:28 AND HAVING CONSIDERED WHAT EZEKIEL SAID YESTERDAY
  • 25:32 ABOUT GOD'S JUDGMENT BEING BROUGHT TO BEAR AGAINST NATIONS ROUND ABOUT ISRAEL
  • 25:38 GIVEN THE WAY THEY ARE MOLESTING THAT NATIONSTATE,
  • 25:41 I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO SHARE THAT PERSONALLY IN MY HEART OF HEARTS
  • 25:45 I BEAR NO ANIMUS AGAINST ARAB PEOPLES.
  • 25:49 PERSONALLY I DON'T LIKE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND MY POLICE OFFICER HEART,
  • 25:56 A GRADUATE OF THE POLICE ACADEMY, I'VE ARRESTED MORE THAN ONE CRIMINAL IN A POLICE CAREER.
  • 26:02 THE HEART WITHIN ME THAT CRIES "JUSTICE" WANTS TO SEE PERPETRATORS BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
  • 26:09 AND WHEN I LOOK AT THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT
  • 26:11 I SEE THAT THOSE BENT ON INJUSTICES AGAINST ISRAEL
  • 26:15 ARE BROUGHT TO BEAR AND THAT'S THE POINT.
  • 26:17 AND THAT IS THE POINT.
  • 26:18 ITS NOT THAT PEOPLE ARE WHO THEY ARE
  • 26:21 IT IS THAT THERE ARE TERRORISTS
  • 26:23 AND TERRORISM IN OUR WORLD.
  • 26:25 YOU CAN CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT TO CALL IT.
  • 26:27 WE ARE REALLY AGAINST THE TERRORISTS.
  • 26:29 SO ITS NOT THAT WE'RE AGAINST MUSLIMS,
  • 26:31 WE ARE JUST AGAINST THE TERRORISM.
  • 26:33 THERE'S ROOM IN MY WORLD FOR PEOPLE
  • 26:35 TO PRACTICE DIFFERENT RELIGIONS. >>RIGHT.
  • 26:36 I JUST WANT JUSTICE PRINCIPALLY. >>AMEN, AMEN.
  • 26:38 NEXT WEEK
  • 26:39 WE'RE LOOKING AT THE DRY BONES VISION.
  • 26:41 JOIN US FOR THAT, TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT IT, THE TERRIFIC PROGRAM NEXT WEEK.
  • 26:46 PLEASE JOIN US.
  • 26:47 AND AS YOU GO,
  • 26:48 SHA 'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
  • 26:50 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM

Episodes in this series

  1. Ezekiel: The Man, His Time, His Message — Then and Now
  2. Overview—Destructive and Constructive Prophecy
  3. Judah’s Demise
  4. Prophecies of Israel’s Last-Days Rise
  5. Israel’s Neighbor States
  6. The Valley of the Dry Bones
  7. The Battle of Gog and Magog
  8. The Restored Temple

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