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• 00:02 male announcer: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots"
• 00:04 with insightful Bible teaching from Israel by Dr. Jeffrey Seif.
• 00:08 This week Babylonian invaders are knocking on the door
• 00:11 of the southern kingdom of Judah as we continue our series:
• 00:15 Kings and Kingdoms.
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• 01:07 David Hart: Thank you for joining us today.
• 01:08 I'm David Hart.
• 01:10 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart. Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
• 01:12 Kirsten: We're in our series Kings and Kingdoms.
• 01:14 David: We have a professor here with us.
• 01:16 Kirsten: We do have a professor who's teaching us so much,
• 01:18 but we're at the last two, this is it.
• 01:21 Jeffrey: This is it. Kirsten: Oh my goodness.
• 01:24 Well, we have a lot to learn about Josiah and Zedekiah,
• 01:27 they're the two kings today, right?
• 01:29 Jeffrey: Yeah, you're gonna like one of them.
• 01:31 Kirsten: And what about the other?
• 01:32 Not so much.
• 01:34 David: They're gonna be graded here in a little bit,
• 01:36 but right now let's go to the Kotel in Jerusalem
• 01:39 with Dr. Seif's teaching.
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• 01:44 Jeffrey: You can feel the sense of sacred here
• 01:47 at the Kotel right in front of the Western Wall.
• 01:51 It's a sacred place for Jewish men.
• 01:53 You can see the davening behind me, that is religious Jews
• 01:57 in a tallit, a prayer shawl.
• 02:00 There's a verse in the New Testament about going into
• 02:02 a room and shutting the door and seeking the Father.
• 02:05 Well, here it's in effect going into a tent, the tallit,
• 02:09 it's just the individual and God seeking him out
• 02:12 in a place that's particularly sacred here.
• 02:15 The Western Wall is very sacred to Jewish people
• 02:17 because it's what's left of the temple complex.
• 02:20 In fact, this was the temple in Jesus's day.
• 02:23 And given the nature of it all, it's so very special.
• 02:25 People come here to pray by the hundreds and thousands, hundreds
• 02:29 and thousands and millions, in fact.
• 02:32 Not only that, it's not on camera right now.
• 02:34 There's a bar mitzvah, a number of them in proximity here
• 02:38 where young men come.
• 02:40 They're passing puberty, and there's something of a rite of
• 02:42 passage in Jewish culture where individuals become, in effect,
• 02:46 the son of the commandments.
• 02:48 I think it's more of a rite of passage.
• 02:50 It's a commitment.
• 02:51 It's a celebration of a young boy passing puberty and getting
• 02:54 a little older, the extent to which an individual bonds
• 02:58 themselves to be a son of the commandment is open to question.
• 03:02 I say that because the culture here is more secular on the
• 03:05 whole than what most religious would like, and it certainly is
• 03:10 true in the Jewish world in America where many people are
• 03:13 Jewish in a cultural sense, but not necessarily in a religious
• 03:16 sense when it comes to commitment to biblical text.
• 03:20 One can live out a cultural kind of religion where God
• 03:23 is at a distance and religion's at a distance.
• 03:26 This is not only a problem in modernity, it was a problem
• 03:29 in antiquity in Bible days, in fact.
• 03:31 And there's a fascinating story about a king who comes to power
• 03:34 named Josiah, a king of Judah, who comes to power
• 03:38 at a time when people have long since forgotten
• 03:40 Jehovah's will and ways.
• 03:42 But there's something of a discovery.
• 03:44 They discover the book.
• 03:45 We're gonna take a look at a book in a moment
• 03:47 and see how that story plays out.
• 03:49 This wonderful moment in Old Testament history where people
• 03:54 who were living in a Jewish commonwealth realize they forgot
• 03:57 about the god of Israel, and the Word of God
• 03:59 from the god of Israel.
• 04:01 They opened it up, they rediscovered,
• 04:03 and made adjustments.
• 04:04 We're gonna look at that right now.
• 04:11 Jeffrey: You know, there's this fascinating story
• 04:14 in 2 Kings 22 where the Hebrew people had forgotten
• 04:19 the Scriptures, interestingly.
• 04:22 And we're told here, I'll read it in the Hebrew...
• 04:24 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 04:30 and the high priest said to the scribe,
• 04:34 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 04:38 I have found the book of the law.
• 04:41 I found the Torah in the house of Adonai.
• 04:45 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 04:50 Hikiah delivered the book, and he read it.
• 04:55 It's a fascinating story, it seems to me, where people can
• 04:58 be, they can be Jewish but not in touch with the God of the
• 05:03 Jewish people or the covenant literature of the Jewish people.
• 05:08 And actually, tragically, in looking at the book of what we
• 05:17 call 2 Kings here, it's been such a bad ride in Judah.
• 05:26 I mentioned that as ever since the civil war, there are
• 05:31 28 kings here, only eight of them are pious.
• 05:36 You know, behind me now there's piety at play, individuals who
• 05:42 reflect a kind of commitment to the terms of the covenant
• 05:46 but it has long since been forgotten.
• 05:48 Happily, someone rediscovered it, a king, and I think,
• 05:52 by the way, that we do better when we have leaders in power
• 05:56 that happen to have something of a love
• 05:59 for the Hebrew literature.
• 06:02 What happens is this King, his name is Josiah, mindful of this
• 06:07 discovery, he will, in verse 13 say, "Go inquire of the Lord for
• 06:12 me and for the people of Judah concerning the words
• 06:14 of the book that is found."
• 06:17 "Go talk to the Lord," he speaks to the priest,
• 06:20 "and inquire of him," because the book had been read
• 06:24 and he realized there were certain punishments
• 06:27 that were going to be meted out in Judah
• 06:30 because of their perfidy because of their faithlessness.
• 06:33 He says, "For great is the wrath of the LORD that has kindled
• 06:37 against us because our fathers have not hearkened unto
• 06:40 the words of this book, to do recording to all
• 06:44 that is written concerning us."
• 06:47 It's just not a problem back here back then.
• 06:49 In America today, in so many ways people have forsaken
• 06:54 the Lord, they've forsaken the literature of things are at play
• 06:59 in culture that is so very bombastic.
• 07:02 What I look for when I cast a vote for a leader, whether it's
• 07:06 someone on a city council, whether it's a mayor, whether
• 07:09 it's a president, whomever, I want someone who has some
• 07:14 commitments to the biblical testimony, the lack thereof
• 07:18 breeds bad things, a kind of liberalization.
• 07:21 And I believe in being liberal, gracious, free, and open minded,
• 07:24 but we get to a point where people forget the essence
• 07:28 and substance of what it is to be a righteous people,
• 07:34 a just and equitable people.
• 07:36 And what we need for sure, in as much as here back in Josiah's
• 07:42 day, the Bible was rediscovered, and it was reemployed,
• 07:46 and decisions were made that comported
• 07:49 with biblical sensibilities.
• 07:51 Would it be that we have leaders today that acted this way,
• 07:55 I think our culture would be the better for it.
• 08:00 I asked Baruch Kvasnica, the director of the Jerusalem
• 08:04 seminary, for his perspective on the implications
• 08:08 of King Josiah rediscovering God's written Word.
• 08:15 Jeffrey: Baruch, Josiah came into a troubled world
• 08:18 and transformed it, correct?
• 08:20 Baruch Kvasnica: True.
• 08:21 It is such an amazing fact that the Torah scroll was discovered
• 08:25 and transformed life in Israel.
• 08:28 Jeffrey: People, you know, people can be culturally Jewish
• 08:31 but not really attached to the literature of the Jewish people
• 08:33 or the god of the Jewish people, it's just culture.
• 08:35 It was like that back then, wasn't it?
• 08:37 Baruch: It's true.
• 08:39 Jewish identity is wrapped up, not just in ethnicity, DNA,
• 08:43 or the land.
• 08:44 It's also wrapped up in the religion in the Torah
• 08:46 that he rediscovered.
• 08:48 Jeffrey: Yes, and in the land, people forgot the Torah
• 08:50 outright, which sounds strange but when Josiah lived and
• 08:55 breathed, it was many years before the invention of the
• 08:57 printing press, kings were beckoned to manufacturer a copy
• 09:01 of it, but it had all fallen into disuse for decades.
• 09:05 Baruch: True, they discovered a national treasure that was
• 09:08 a spiritual treasure that transformed them in ways
• 09:10 because they were reading the text and allowing that text
• 09:14 to transform their lives.
• 09:16 Jeffrey: So, what happens in the Bible, they clean house?
• 09:18 Baruch: They cleaned house in a major way.
• 09:20 They got rid of idols, they got rid of idolatry, and there was
• 09:23 a renewed focus on walking straight in the ways
• 09:27 of the Lord.
• 09:28 Jeffrey: My understanding is the king had the scroll read to
• 09:31 him, and he realizes there's incongruity between what that
• 09:35 literature is demanding and the way that he was living
• 09:37 and administrating, and he decided to fix it
• 09:40 and bring himself closer to the biblical narrative.
• 09:43 Baruch: He allowed the Word of God
• 09:45 to cut his heart and repent.
• 09:48 And when that leader repented, Josiah,
• 09:50 it transformed the people.
• 09:52 That can happen today as well.
• 09:53 Jeffrey: Yes, and I'm interested in the today moment
• 09:55 principally because I want to see the Bible make
• 09:58 its way into the public arena in American politics,
• 10:01 Israeli politics, wherever.
• 10:03 I think when the Bible comes in, good things happen.
• 10:06 Conversely, when it's thrown out, bad things happen.
• 10:09 Baruch: What needs to happen is that the Torah, the Tanakh,
• 10:12 the older testament, and the New Testament are central
• 10:16 to our life, our spiritual life, meditating it on day and night,
• 10:19 just like Josiah did, and Joshua mentions, and Saul mentions,
• 10:24 meditating on the Torah day and night.
• 10:27 Jeffrey: Hey, I'm gonna vote for politicians
• 10:29 that do some of that.
• 10:30 Good talking to you today.
• 10:32 Baruch: Thank you.
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• 10:44 Jeffrey: In the previous segment, we looked at Yoshiyahu,
• 10:48 an interesting fellow.
• 10:49 The name means God has healed, and indeed there was healing
• 10:52 during his administration.
• 10:55 Successive kings, however, were worse than those that preceded
• 10:59 him, the last of which is one that will be the object of our
• 11:03 attention today in chapter 24.
• 11:06 He makes his entrance onto the stage of the biblical drama.
• 11:10 His name is Zedekiah, which means God is just,
• 11:16 God is righteous.
• 11:18 Righteous justice entailed judgment.
• 11:22 It was a horrible picture and coming to you from this place.
• 11:26 You know, I remember there was an old TV show when I was young.
• 11:29 It spoke of the agony and the ecstasy.
• 11:32 In the previous segment, just in another part
• 11:34 of this Western Wall, there's the ecstasy.
• 11:37 There's prayer, there's joy, and I can even hear it
• 11:42 reverberating in the background now.
• 11:44 People come here to celebrate, to bless the Lord,
• 11:47 to remember his deliverance.
• 11:50 The nation state's been delivered.
• 11:52 Jerusalem has been recovered.
• 11:54 Young people come here with a dedication ceremony.
• 11:58 That's on the other side of the wall, the good news.
• 12:00 The bad news is here, and there's vestiges
• 12:03 of former destruction.
• 12:05 In the days of the Romans specifically, the stones
• 12:08 that were felled in the 70 A.D. debacle still stand here.
• 12:14 Now, I'm interested in another destruction that came
• 12:17 in the days of Zedekiah, the last of the Judean kings.
• 12:21 It was tragic, I should say.
• 12:23 God said in the beginning of it all in Genesis,
• 12:26 there was a seminal promise when God said to Avraham, he said,
• 12:30 "I'm gonna make of you a great nation and a great people."
• 12:33 Well, we've been following this nation through this series Kings
• 12:36 and Kingdoms, and we've seen the rise and demise,
• 12:40 mostly the demise from a united monarchy to a divided monarchy.
• 12:45 And now finally, as we're going to see for the moment,
• 12:49 the throne of Judah is going to be felled.
• 12:54 It's going to come to inglorious end when these walls
• 12:58 came a tumbling down.
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• 13:12 Jeffrey: We go from one set of ruins to another.
• 13:15 I mentioned that there's Roman ruins over here.
• 13:18 These are ruins of a former Arabic conquest.
• 13:21 There's been a lot of history in this part of the world.
• 13:24 I don't want to talk to you about sticks and bricks.
• 13:27 I want to talk to you about what brings about destruction,
• 13:29 and that is the word sin.
• 13:33 Sin wreaks havoc for individuals.
• 13:36 If you have a flagrant sinner in a family system, you know,
• 13:41 a husband, a spouse, it can bring the system down.
• 13:45 And to be sure, if you have bad leadership in government,
• 13:49 it brings it down.
• 13:51 And speaking of bringing it down, we're looking at a place
• 13:54 in Scripture where it all came tumbling down.
• 13:59 2 Kings chapter 24, we're told...
• 14:03 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 14:07 "And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon."
• 14:12 He had rebelled against the Lord before that,
• 14:14 by the way, as noted, he did evil.
• 14:16 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 14:19 It says just before he did evil in the eyes of the Lord,
• 14:21 and not just him, all the kings before him save for Josiah.
• 14:26 With Josiah, whom we spoke of earlier, with his revival,
• 14:30 it's been argued too little too late.
• 14:32 He was able to stave off an impending judgment, but owing to
• 14:37 the wickedness that compounded subsequent to him,
• 14:41 the nation state fell.
• 14:43 It really is quite the tragic story, and it's told in chapter
• 14:46 25 how the Babylonians make their entrance onto the stage.
• 14:52 Jerusalem is surrounded. There's a siege.
• 14:55 There's a breach, and the next result finally is that some
• 14:59 of the soldiers that have survived to this point,
• 15:02 along with the royals, they flee.
• 15:04 We're told they make their way down to Jordan.
• 15:07 God had promised a great nation and a great people
• 15:10 and here what's left of it is running for its life.
• 15:13 I mean, it really is quite tragic.
• 15:16 And again, bad leadership, bad decision, bad politics,
• 15:21 bad consequences.
• 15:23 It's like it in the ancient day.
• 15:25 It's like that in modernity, which is why we want the right
• 15:28 people in the right place.
• 15:30 Whether it's in your personal house, or whether it's in the
• 15:34 house of government, at the end of the day, people matter,
• 15:38 the values that drive matter, obedience to God matters.
• 15:44 I want to note the tragedy here.
• 15:46 It's just so despicable.
• 15:48 To me, it's the ultimate in ruin.
• 15:52 We're told in chapter 25...
• 15:57 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 16:05 "They slew his sons before his eyes."
• 16:10 Now, by the way, I think it's the ultimate insult in life
• 16:13 to have to bury your children.
• 16:15 I mention this here because the Babylonians, they capture
• 16:18 the royal family, and all of the children are murdered
• 16:23 in front of Zedekiah's eyes.
• 16:26 I would rather die than have to see that.
• 16:30 But death didn't come to him immediately after that.
• 16:33 To add insult to the injury, we're told in the text...
• 16:37 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 16:42 that is they put out Zedekiah's eyes.
• 16:46 In other words, the last thing he saw was the murder
• 16:50 of his family.
• 16:53 I would rather die after that.
• 16:54 I'd rather die before that, but no,
• 16:56 they cut his eyes out instead.
• 16:58 And then we read in the text, and I'm looking in verse 7,
• 17:01 "Then they take him off to Babylonia in chains
• 17:05 in a dungeon."
• 17:07 What an inglorious end for a line that was promised
• 17:11 a glorious future in the beginning.
• 17:14 Sin ruins.
• 17:18 We need the right people in the right place, and we need to
• 17:22 exercise our influence to endeavor to get the right people
• 17:27 with the right vision, with the right values,
• 17:30 in the right place.
• 17:33 As a parent, my kids bring along suitors, I look deeply like an
• 17:38 eagle looking through tall grass looking for a gopher
• 17:41 as they're flying over.
• 17:43 There's penetrating insight into the depth.
• 17:46 I want to know who is this person?
• 17:49 Do they have the kind of values, the kind of virtues,
• 17:52 that I lead to success in life?
• 17:54 I want it at that level.
• 17:55 I as an individual want to live with the right vision,
• 17:58 the right values that lead to success in life.
• 18:01 I want it in my home.
• 18:02 I want it in my congregation.
• 18:04 I want it in my ministry, and I want it in my country.
• 18:08 Whether I'm voting for city council, for a mayor,
• 18:11 for a president, whatever it is, these rotations
• 18:14 come along all the time.
• 18:16 And in a democracy, I have an opportunity
• 18:19 to exercise influence.
• 18:22 People say that religion has no business in the public square,
• 18:26 we should separate religion from state, church and state.
• 18:30 I believe that's a myth.
• 18:32 Certainly, anyway, those of us with biblical value want to use
• 18:37 those values, and use our influence to endeavor
• 18:41 to ensure that they are inculcated into culture.
• 18:45 This, I believe, is a recipe for success in life and coming to
• 18:49 you from the ruins of a bygone era, I want to remind you
• 18:53 that the lack thereof leads to ruin.
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• 20:21 We've been talking about the kings, King David was known
• 20:24 as a man after God's own heart.
• 20:26 Well, Sarah Lieberman is a woman after God's own heart.
• 20:30 She has a heart for praise and worship, and she now
• 20:33 will give us a Hebrew word for worship: exalt.
• 20:42 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 20:44 Sarah Lieberman: Welcome back to our series
• 20:46 exploring the words for worship in Hebrew.
• 20:49 I am so excited because as a worship leader,
• 20:53 I know that when you explore the Hebrew language
• 20:56 in connection with these two words,
• 20:58 praise and worship, you find so much more.
• 21:02 And as we appropriate this into our worship lives and our
• 21:05 regular lives, it transforms us and changes our lives.
• 21:10 Now, today's word is a special one.
• 21:12 It is this word L'Shabach.
• 21:15 It comes from the root word shavah, and there really isn't a
• 21:20 good translation into English and I'll tell you why.
• 21:24 It kind of means to exalt or to describe a nature of something
• 21:29 that is supreme, or excellent, or perfect.
• 21:34 It's kind of like when you have regular wine, like in the
• 21:39 miracle of Cana, but then when Yeshua turns the water into
• 21:43 wine, it is excellent wine, it is the best wine,
• 21:47 kind of like you have different grades of chocolate
• 21:50 or olive oil, for example.
• 21:53 So, when this word "L'Shabach comes in the Bible, it is always
• 21:58 in the context of describing God as supreme, or so much greater,
• 22:05 so much more wonderful than anything
• 22:07 that we could ever imagine.
• 22:09 This verse that you're used to hearing that says,
• 22:13 "Because your lovingkindness is better than life,
• 22:16 my lips will praise you."
• 22:18 Well, in Hebrew it says that "Because your lovingkindness is
• 22:21 better than life, my lips will L'Shabach, which means they will
• 22:25 describe you as so much greater, so much more exalted,
• 22:30 so much more wonderful.
• 22:32 And I wonder if in our worship experience,
• 22:36 we could think about that.
• 22:38 How can we ascribe to the Lord his excellence,
• 22:42 his perfection, his beauty?
• 22:45 As you go forward in your worship services,
• 22:48 I hope that you will remember this word "L'Shabach.
• 22:52 It says that all the nations are going to come together and exalt
• 22:57 God, that they will ascribe to him this wonderful
• 23:01 praise and worship.
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• 24:40 David: The God of the Bible is truly worthy
• 24:42 of all of our praise.
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• 24:47 We're here today talking about a king, and I think we have
• 24:51 a report card here.
• 24:53 What does he get?
• 24:54 Kirsten: I think it's a good one.
• 24:56 Jeffrey: You know, he's not Jesus.
• 24:57 He's not Yeshua, but I'm gonna give him some praise.
• 24:59 He's my only A.
• 25:01 And I'll tell ya, except for the boss.
• 25:05 Kirsten: He gets an A-plus, though, right?
• 25:06 Jeffrey: He gets an A-plus-plus.
• 25:08 But what I like about him, and I wish it for all of our leaders,
• 25:11 is he discovered the Bible and decided to apply it to his
• 25:14 vocation, and the world was a better place by virtue
• 25:18 of his so doing.
• 25:20 Would that I saw more of that, that's what I'm looking
• 25:23 for in leaders.
• 25:24 Kirsten: Well, I'm just surprised that this king,
• 25:26 a king of Judah.
• 25:28 I mean, the temple's right there, it's Jerusalem,
• 25:31 that when he became king, and I know he was eight,
• 25:33 he was very, very young.
• 25:35 But that someone didn't say, "Here are the Scriptures.
• 25:37 This is what you need to learn because you're ruling people
• 25:40 that believe in this."
• 25:41 I mean that on his own, he just happened to--
• 25:44 Jeffrey: Workers discovered it and brought it to him
• 25:47 and it was found, and it was found and taken seriously.
• 25:51 Of course, we're living many years before the printing press.
• 25:54 But kings were supposed to know the word and make a copy of it,
• 25:57 but that had fallen into disuse.
• 25:59 Even in public discourse today, people can talk about religion
• 26:02 and Judeo-Christian ethics, but not go to the primary source.
• 26:05 I'm looking for leaders that want to go to the source
• 26:08 and apply it to circumstances that they deal with.
• 26:12 This one gets an F.
• 26:14 You know, I hate to end it on a bad note when I'm looking at
• 26:16 these kings, but he was the king of the end of Judah,
• 26:21 a horrible end to this man, his life, his family.
• 26:25 David: There was a lot of sin going on during this time.
• 26:28 Jeffrey: Oh, to be sure, yes, and it leaves a mark
• 26:30 and it brings nations to ruin.
• 26:33 Again, another reason why I want leaders that want to apply
• 26:37 biblical principles to the kind of decisions that they make
• 26:41 and the way that they live.
• 26:43 I don't expect perfection, I do out of Yeshua, Jesus,
• 26:46 the ultimate King of kings, but I want leaders to be
• 26:50 more like this one right here, Josiah.
• 26:53 Kirsten: Josiah was a good leader, and we desire to be a
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