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• 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots" with insightful
• 00:06 Bible teaching from Israel by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:09 This week, we contrast two kings of Judah: a faithful father and
• 00:14 his evil son, today on "Kings and Kingdoms."
• 00:19 ♪♪♪
• 00:29 ♪♪♪
• 00:39 ♪♪♪
• 00:49 ♪♪♪
• 00:59 ♪♪♪
• 01:07 David: We're so glad you've joined us
• 01:08 today, I am David Hart.
• 01:09 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:11 Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:12 David: So we're in the middle of the series and it's all about
• 01:14 leadership in the Bible.
• 01:16 You've been grading them and it hasn't been good news.
• 01:19 We need a little bit of good news.
• 01:20 Kirsten: Please, can one of the kings be good?
• 01:23 Look at--look, my fingers are crossed.
• 01:24 Please?
• 01:26 Jeffrey: Listen, young lady, don't shoot the
• 01:27 messenger, I only work here.
• 01:29 The Bible gives 'em bad scores on the whole because things are
• 01:32 deteriorating and the kingdom's going down the drain.
• 01:35 As an instructor, I tend to be more of an upbeat and more of a
• 01:37 gracious grader, but it's hard to do it on the whole.
• 01:41 But we have a good one coming in short order.
• 01:42 Kirsten: Good, well, the northern kingdom's gone now.
• 01:45 We're down to little Judah.
• 01:46 Jeffrey: See, yes, in fact, Judah would have gone too were
• 01:49 it not for the individual who's the object of our
• 01:51 attention at the outset.
• 01:53 Kirsten: Good, I'm ready for a good grade.
• 01:54 Jeffrey: Yeah, God did a turnaround because this
• 01:56 was a turnaround king.
• 01:58 I like turnaround leaders. How about you?
• 02:00 David: I think it's about a father and son today, correct?
• 02:02 Jeffrey: Mm-hmm, the son not so good.
• 02:04 Let's just do Dad now. We'll get to the kiddos later.
• 02:08 David: Right now, let's go to the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem
• 02:10 with Dr. Seif's teaching.
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• 02:20 Jeffrey: I am surrounded by the memories
• 02:22 of biblical noteworthies.
• 02:25 I say that because just off to my right is the tomb of Absalom.
• 02:31 You might have--recall that name.
• 02:34 Just over my left shoulder is a tomb to Zechariah.
• 02:39 You might recall that name.
• 02:41 And if you're deep into the biblical woods,
• 02:44 you might remember the sons of Keziah mentioned in Nehemiah and
• 02:49 1 Chronicles, one of 24 famous priestly families.
• 02:54 Their tombs are just off to my immediate right.
• 02:57 Very, very interesting place here at the base
• 03:01 of the Mount of Olives.
• 03:04 If you've been to Jerusalem and the area adjacent to it on the
• 03:08 Mount of Olives, you'd noted that it's one big cemetery and a
• 03:12 lot of rabbis and pious Jews are buried and,
• 03:16 here, this is a place reserved for men of renown.
• 03:22 And this is a great place to talk to the one who arguably is
• 03:27 the best of the best of the best.
• 03:30 When it comes to the kings of Israel,
• 03:32 save David himself, this person is adjudged to be so
• 03:37 important--think of this, some of the kings of Judah are just
• 03:41 given a few sentences or a paragraph.
• 03:43 This one: three chapters here in 2 Kings.
• 03:50 His name is Hezekiah.
• 03:51 Comes from the word "chezeq," which means strength.
• 03:55 And he was going to need it.
• 03:58 And he himself was vested with responsibility to inculcate it
• 04:03 into Judah for he served at the helm of the
• 04:08 community during troubling times.
• 04:11 You can't see it from where the camera's pointed, but my
• 04:14 peripheral vision is the city of David and, right around the
• 04:18 bend from me, you might have heard of Hezekiah's Tunnel.
• 04:22 One of the things that Hezekiah did in preparation for enabling
• 04:26 Judas to survive an invasion, is he managed waterworks by
• 04:32 constructing a tunnel to get to a water source which is
• 04:35 essential if you're going to have a siege.
• 04:38 There are stones laying round about as well.
• 04:40 He built up fortifications, but more than what he did
• 04:44 materially, the Bible says there was something about him
• 04:48 spiritually that gave him a kind of wisdom that wouldn't
• 04:53 otherwise have been there.
• 04:55 I already mentioned there's three chapters dedicated
• 04:58 to the man's memory.
• 04:59 I just wanna look at how he's introduced, and so I'm looking
• 05:03 at 2 Kings chapter 18, and the author here in verse 5 says,
• 05:08 "[Speaking in Hebrew],"
• 05:12 that is, "He trusted in the Lord God of Israel."
• 05:17 Isn't that a good testimony to say of someone
• 05:19 that he trusted the Lord?
• 05:21 A lot of people don't.
• 05:23 In verse 6, he goes on,
• 05:26 "[Speaking in Hebrew]
• 05:28 He cleaved to the Lord."
• 05:31 This is more than just kind of like an intellectual assent as
• 05:35 in trust, "Yes, I think it'll work out the
• 05:37 way the Good Book says."
• 05:38 No, but there's something about him that cleaves to.
• 05:41 That says something. I like that in a leader.
• 05:44 How about you?
• 05:45 "[Speaking in Hebrew]
• 05:48 He departed not from following him."
• 05:52 You know, sometimes people get religion on the spur and it
• 05:55 evaporates like morning dew.
• 05:58 You know, when they're in trouble they kind of--you know,
• 06:01 they run to the altar but in the,
• 06:02 you know, in due time those energies just dissipate.
• 06:07 There's a kind of staying power with him.
• 06:10 We're told that he didn't evaporate.
• 06:12 "[Speaking in Hebrew]
• 06:15 But that he kept God's commandments."
• 06:19 Now, one of the reasons why I wanna break this down
• 06:22 specifically isn't simply to eulogize him.
• 06:25 You know, I'm not some rabbi tasked with the--there's
• 06:29 something called panegyria in antiquity, that is, the
• 06:31 way you speak of greats, of noteworthies, of royalty.
• 06:34 The reason why I wanna slow down and get into the particulars
• 06:38 here is less about describing him,
• 06:41 much as it is my wanting to lift up what are some of the
• 06:44 characteristics of leaders that I am game to affirm personally?
• 06:49 That is to say, I like this.
• 06:52 More important than what I like, the Bible commands this.
• 06:56 We're told as well, as we read on through to the end of verse
• 07:00 6: "He kept the commandments, which the Lord
• 07:03 God commanded Moses."
• 07:08 This is before the printing press, by the way, where people
• 07:10 can get books on the cheap and everyone can pick up a Gideons
• 07:13 Bible in a hotel room, never mind a bookstore, never
• 07:17 mind googling something and getting a text online.
• 07:20 That he, before those modern inventions,
• 07:25 that he dwelt in proximity to the literature.
• 07:29 The Torah beckoned kings to make a copy of the text and so,
• 07:32 by virtue of their being involved in the manufacture,
• 07:35 the hope was that that would contribute toward their abiding
• 07:39 with it and having more of a familiarity with it.
• 07:41 Not always the case, however.
• 07:43 If you look at the biblical testimony,
• 07:46 if we look at the kings of Judah and their religion,
• 07:49 you couldn't trust it any further than you can throw it.
• 07:52 Out of 28 kings, the only one there noteworthy for any kind of
• 07:54 piety, there's 8 of them, and in this series we only cover 4.
• 07:59 We don't have time to do it all.
• 08:01 This man, however, comes with these sterling affirmations.
• 08:07 Now, I wanna close the book to make a point.
• 08:09 You know, I'm a Bible teacher and I'm opening up the Bible and
• 08:13 going back, you know, thousands of years and certainly when
• 08:17 we're looking at the book, Kings,
• 08:19 we're going back, you know, to a bygone era.
• 08:22 But I wanna bring it forward and make a point,
• 08:24 one you've heard me to say on a number of occasions as we've
• 08:28 looked at the biblical testimony about kings and kingdoms.
• 08:32 And what is that point, principally?
• 08:34 The simple point is that faithfulness
• 08:37 to the Lord pays dividends.
• 08:40 Over and over again, that's what the biblical
• 08:44 chroniclers alight upon.
• 08:47 This translates into success in life.
• 08:50 By way of contra-distinction, the lack thereof translates into
• 08:55 failure, which is why when I look at kings and kingdoms,
• 09:01 while I'm looking there generally, specifically
• 09:04 what I'm looking at are issues associated with
• 09:07 faithfulness to biblical vision.
• 09:11 And I say that to you as you're looking for what leads,
• 09:15 who leads, what ideas move forward,
• 09:18 what personalities best advocate for those ideas.
• 09:22 As you, in a democracy, weigh in and decide what you wanna do,
• 09:27 who you wanna support, whether it's in government,
• 09:30 in the broader sense of political government,
• 09:33 who do you wanna attach yourself to in business,
• 09:36 in the business of business, or even who you wanna attach
• 09:39 yourself to in the business of love, whether it's building
• 09:42 a biological kingdom, whether it's building a business
• 09:45 kingdom, whether it's considering the national
• 09:48 kingdom that we live in, our country.
• 09:51 Let me encourage you with what the biblical authors encourage
• 09:55 us: put your energies and support behind that which
• 10:01 advocates faithfulness to the biblical economy.
• 10:05 Support faithful men, support policies
• 10:09 that reflect biblical vision.
• 10:11 This, according to the authors of this,
• 10:14 the Bible, this is a recipe for success in life.
• 10:19 Conversely, throwing this behind the back translates into
• 10:24 lack of success in life.
• 10:27 There are individuals who ostensibly pay lip service to a
• 10:30 biblical agenda, but it doesn't really inform what
• 10:33 they're thinking and doing.
• 10:35 What you wanna do is look for people that are
• 10:38 faithful to the biblical text.
• 10:40 Call those faithful people your friends and I believe you'll be
• 10:45 better for so doing.
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• 11:01 Jeffrey: He was, in no uncertain terms,
• 11:04 a worthless piece of human wreckage.
• 11:09 To whom am I referring?
• 11:11 Well, a Bible character: the son of Judah's most famous king,
• 11:16 Hezekiah, was a mess.
• 11:19 His name was Manasseh.
• 11:22 And my description of him in my opening statement pales in
• 11:28 comparison to the way the Bible describes him.
• 11:33 And here in this segment, I wanna take
• 11:36 a look at that passage.
• 11:38 And I'm pleased to film this segment from here.
• 11:42 I can't think of a better place.
• 11:45 I'm coming to you from the Valley of Gehenna,
• 11:49 also known as hell, interestingly.
• 11:53 In fact, some New Testament texts you'll see where Jesus
• 11:56 says, "hell," and you look at the bottom,
• 11:58 there's an italicized letter and it gives the word "Gehenna,"
• 12:02 because it was in this place years ago that corpses were
• 12:06 taken and incinerated.
• 12:09 So it was a reminder of a place where corpses would be taken
• 12:14 and incinerated, that is hell.
• 12:17 Beyond that, here was a place where child sacrifices were
• 12:23 offered, and we'll see in short order how Manasseh actually
• 12:27 offered his own son as a child sacrifice in Judah.
• 12:33 Horrible.
• 12:34 And this is the place where it all happened.
• 12:36 Well, this is a place that has a horrible memory attached to it.
• 12:41 And I wanna come to you from this place and tell a bad story.
• 12:45 It's not that I'm game to tell bad stories.
• 12:47 I know we have a lot of bad stories in our own personal
• 12:50 narratives and people watch religious TV for a Bible study
• 12:54 to get some good news.
• 12:56 But sometimes, it's important to take a look at the bad in order
• 13:00 to see the way through it to get that which is good.
• 13:04 I mention that because I had a friend in medical school.
• 13:06 He said they would take cadavers,
• 13:08 bodies that died of disease processes,
• 13:11 and they would take them and dissect them.
• 13:14 It was adjudged to be important to look how disease worked and
• 13:19 to look at the effect that it had on the body.
• 13:22 Well, I think that's true and I think the biblical authors
• 13:25 think that's true too.
• 13:26 And why is that?
• 13:28 Because they tell this man's story.
• 13:31 Let's go take a look at the book.
• 13:32 It's worth seeing.
• 13:33 It's a tough story to tell, but it's worth hearing
• 13:36 as we look at kings and kingdoms.
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• 13:45 Jeffrey: You can see from the passageway behind me that the
• 13:48 road to hell is indeed well traveled.
• 13:52 Of course, it's an analogy here but,
• 13:54 unfortunately, it's very true.
• 13:56 And it's doubly unfortunate that it was one of Judean kings who
• 14:01 was particularly culpable in leading people to it.
• 14:06 My strong and disdainful intro bears some biblical proof text
• 14:14 for it, lest you think that I'm just brazen in my disregard
• 14:18 for personalities of old.
• 14:20 In chapter 21 of 2 Kings, therein,
• 14:24 the literature is very clear.
• 14:27 Manasseh is introduced and we're told at the outset
• 14:30 he reigned 55 years.
• 14:32 It's 55 years of World War II, in effect.
• 14:36 It's 55 years of horror.
• 14:38 We're told in verse 2: "And he did evil in the eyes of the
• 14:43 Lord, going after the various abominations of the nations whom
• 14:48 the Lord cast out before the eyes
• 14:51 of the children of Israel."
• 14:53 There were things that the Lord cast out and he ran after those
• 14:57 with a vengeance to reinstall them in Israel, in Judah.
• 15:04 There's particulars noted.
• 15:06 We're told here that he built altars to Baal,
• 15:11 pagan worship is instilled, as well as Asherah,
• 15:14 the female counterpart to this pagan worship.
• 15:18 Not only that, in verse 4, to add insult to the injury,
• 15:23 we're told that he built pagan altars in the house of the Lord,
• 15:29 in the--called the temple, the Beit
• 15:32 Hamikdash, the holy house.
• 15:34 He took that which was dedicated to Jehovah and,
• 15:38 in effect, dedicated it to the devil.
• 15:41 That's what this author is saying.
• 15:44 We're told as well, as evidence thereof in verse 6,
• 15:48 that, "He made his son to pass through the fire."
• 15:51 This harks back to a pagan practice of child sacrifice.
• 15:57 He did it.
• 15:58 By the way, child sacrifices were done here in this valley
• 16:02 and, here, this man, we're told, a king of Judah,
• 16:05 mind you, is proactive in all of that.
• 16:07 Not only that, this Manasseh, his father, Hezekiah, was the
• 16:11 best kiddy in the Judean litter, a very righteous king.
• 16:17 And his son, to be so deplorable, it's just bombastic.
• 16:22 We're told as well that he practiced soothsaying, he's
• 16:26 something of a fortune teller, absolutely unacceptable.
• 16:31 If you look in verse 16 of the chapter,
• 16:33 we're told that, "He shed innocent blood very much till he
• 16:39 filled Jerusalem from one end to another."
• 16:44 In another life, I've served as a police academy director and
• 16:48 instructor, and I would teach professionalism and ethics.
• 16:51 I teach a course in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights,
• 16:55 and I always made a number of points with a mind to inculcate
• 16:59 the imperative that those that have power be virtuous,
• 17:02 just, ethical, fair, and good.
• 17:05 This man was anything but that.
• 17:07 He was unjust, guilty of murder, filling Jerusalem with blood
• 17:12 from one end to the other.
• 17:14 When I think of that, there are leaders that are like that.
• 17:17 They go after policies that lend themselves to murder.
• 17:20 It's horrible, completely unacceptable.
• 17:23 The net result, we're told in verse 12,
• 17:26 that God is gonna bring evil upon Jerusalem.
• 17:29 When you have leaders like that, bad leaders,
• 17:32 bad things happen as a result of that.
• 17:35 We wanna go after people that reflect biblical
• 17:38 vision, value, and virtue.
• 17:40 Vote for them, get behind them.
• 17:42 Put 'em in your house, put 'em in the White House,
• 17:45 put 'em in Congress.
• 17:46 That's what we want.
• 17:48 And if we don't get it, if we get this,
• 17:51 I see a bad moon rising.
• 17:55 ♪♪♪
• 18:04 Jeffrey: Our Creator chose certain places on the planet to
• 18:07 reveal himself and his message of redemption to us.
• 18:12 Mount Sinai, Moriah, Olives, the Mount of Beatitudes,
• 18:16 as well as various seas, rivers, and deserts.
• 18:19 These were the places.
• 18:21 Some are now only ruins, yet they continue to tell of the
• 18:25 Lord's faithfulness and love.
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• 18:37 the Bible from Genesis to Revelation."
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• 20:29 Jeff has been talking about a good king, Hezekiah.
• 20:32 The benchmark, I think, is King David;
• 20:34 a good name, your name is David.
• 20:36 Who was one of the first praise and worship leaders.
• 20:39 He wrote the Psalms, and Sarah Liberman is a worship leader in
• 20:43 Israel and she's gonna teach us Hebrew words of worship.
• 20:47 Here's Sarah now.
• 20:49 ♪♪♪
• 20:54 Sarah Liberman: Shalom haverim.
• 20:56 Welcome back to our series on exploring the words
• 20:59 of worship in Hebrew.
• 21:00 You see, in English we primarily have only two words:
• 21:03 "worship" and "praise."
• 21:05 But in the Hebrew language, there are so many more words
• 21:08 that explore what it is to worship God.
• 21:12 Now, today's word is the word "La'avod."
• 21:15 In fact, the first time the word "worship" is mentioned in the
• 21:19 Bible, it uses this word in Hebrew, "la'avod."
• 21:23 The word means work.
• 21:24 It comes from the same root that we use to describe our jobs,
• 21:28 our daily work that we do as our profession.
• 21:31 Do you know where it's found?
• 21:33 It's found in that moment where Abraham is going to take Isaac
• 21:37 up to Mount Moriah.
• 21:39 He says to the boy, "Let us go up and worship," or work,
• 21:45 "as unto the Lord."
• 21:46 I find that incredible and inspiring because that act of
• 21:51 surrender, that act of worship, that Abraham knows he's going to
• 21:55 do with Isaac, he uses that word "work."
• 21:58 It suggests to me that we can go about our daily lives,
• 22:03 our work, our tasks, everything that we are doing,
• 22:07 and we can go about it with the attitude of worshiping God.
• 22:11 What would our lives look like if everything we did,
• 22:15 we did from that place in our heart to say,
• 22:18 "I am doing this as a work unto the Lord,
• 22:22 as a act of worship and service unto God"?
• 22:26 Imagine going through your life and continually being aware of
• 22:31 the presence of the Lord and wanting to give him something in
• 22:34 everything that you do.
• 22:36 This is this word of worship, "la'avod et Adonai."
• 22:41 ♪♪♪
• 22:44 ♪ Though I walk in darkness-- ♪
• 22:48 ♪ Though I'm often lost, ♪
• 22:51 ♪ you light the way. ♪
• 22:54 ♪ By the still waters, ♪
• 22:57 ♪ leading me onward, ♪
• 23:00 ♪ a place of peace and quiet rest. ♪
• 23:05 ♪ I call out your name. ♪
• 23:08 ♪ You hear my voice. ♪
• 23:11 ♪ I hear you call me, "My chosen." ♪
• 23:16 ♪ Hold a place for me, ♪
• 23:18 ♪ there beside your throne. ♪
• 23:21 ♪ I will follow you forever. ♪
• 23:26 ♪ I call out your name. ♪
• 23:29 ♪ You hear my voice. ♪
• 23:32 ♪ I hear you call me, "My chosen." ♪
• 23:37 ♪ Hold a place for me, ♪
• 23:40 ♪ there beside your throne. ♪
• 23:43 ♪ I will follow you forever. ♪
• 23:48 ♪ I call out your name. ♪
• 23:54 ♪ I hear you call me, "My chosen." ♪
• 23:59 ♪ Hold a place for me. ♪
• 24:04 ♪ I will follow you forever. ♪♪
• 24:12 David: We love bringing you music by Marty Goetz.
• 24:15 We love having him on this program.
• 24:16 Also, we hope you're enjoying our Hebrew lessons that we bring
• 24:19 you each week from Sarah Liberman.
• 24:21 Right now, I think you have a report card here.
• 24:24 What's going on today?
• 24:25 Kirsten: I'm ready. I'm ready for this, great.
• 24:27 Jeffrey: Professor Seif is at it again.
• 24:29 I hope I'll make you happier.
• 24:31 Kirsten: Hezekiah, he has his own tunnel.
• 24:34 He's gotta get a good grade.
• 24:35 Jeffrey: Okay, then only because of you, we'll give
• 24:37 him a B, how's that?
• 24:38 David: That's what I was--I was gonna say a B.
• 24:40 Jeffrey: Oh, there you go.
• 24:42 You know, I mean, I like him.
• 24:44 He's noteworthy in the literature for
• 24:46 a variety of reasons.
• 24:49 He was faithful unto the Lord.
• 24:50 His weakness that's noted in the text is that he showed off his
• 24:54 treasury to enemy envoys who came and that was gonna
• 24:58 come back to haunt him.
• 24:59 Kirsten: Which is prideful. "Look what I have."
• 25:01 Jeffrey: It was prideful of him and showing off
• 25:03 your money's not a good thing.
• 25:04 Now, we're not gonna have that problem at "Our
• 25:07 Jewish Roots," I should say.
• 25:10 We're not working with deep pockets and big treasuries.
• 25:13 We get it a dime at a time.
• 25:15 And that said, I want to encourage you,
• 25:17 please, help us to fill the coffers.
• 25:20 We don't store it up from generation to generation.
• 25:23 We're on nationally syndicated television.
• 25:26 We don't own it, we rent it, and it's due every month.
• 25:28 And if you'd help us, if you think this is good news,
• 25:31 looking at it all through the eyes of the Jews, please put
• 25:34 some money in there and I know God'll bless you for so doing.
• 25:38 Hezekiah was a blessed man.
• 25:40 He served the Lord and saw miracles in his life.
• 25:42 And I think we can see miracles in our own as well.
• 25:46 Unfortunately, his son, Manasseh, was a worthless
• 25:50 piece of human wreckage, bad to the bone.
• 25:54 He's the worst kiddy in this litter to my way of thinking.
• 25:58 David: Here's my thought, you and I are dads
• 26:01 and I think we both have great sons.
• 26:03 My son was in the army, another son lived in
• 26:06 Jerusalem for three years.
• 26:07 You have great sons.
• 26:09 Hezekiah, he had to deal with his son who was evil.
• 26:13 Jeffrey: Well, you know, in Jewish tradition,
• 26:16 it says that he turned it around later in life but, you know, the
• 26:20 author of Hebrews speaks about some being sawn in two.
• 26:24 It was Manasseh who murdered Isaiah
• 26:26 the prophet, one of the greats.
• 26:27 Kirsten: I mean, literally, he--a saw, right?
• 26:29 I mean, it's just horrible.
• 26:31 Jeffrey: Yeah, you know, these kings can really
• 26:33 be bad to the bone.
• 26:35 He gets an F-minus. I'm not pleased.
• 26:39 You know, like politicians today,
• 26:40 sometimes when you give someone power,
• 26:43 things flower in conjunction with that.
• 26:45 Napoleon said, "You find out the measure of a man when you give
• 26:48 him some rank," the General.
• 26:50 Well, we see the measure of this man.
• 26:53 He wasn't very good.
• 26:54 Kirsten: We should pray for our politicians.
• 26:58 Pray for them and pray that pride will not rise up.
• 27:02 That's my personal takeaway.
• 27:04 Jeffrey: Yes, and speaking of taking
• 27:06 away, it's time to go away.
• 27:07 And speaking of prayer as you go,
• 27:09 shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:12 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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