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Episode: “Young Man’s Visions”
The Babylonian war machine was coming to Judah. The Lord chose a young Jeremiah to be His prophet and to deliver the call to return to the ways and values specified in God’s Word. Their culture, like ours, veered off the path and was about to reap the consequences.
Series: “Jeremiah”
Hope over the horizon
Known as the weeping prophet, Jeremiah received the assignment of warning his countrymen of the coming judgment and deportation at the hands of the Babylonians. A message of hope and deliverance is woven through Jeremiah’s writings.

Caption transcript for Jeremiah: “Young Man’s Visions” (1/9)

  • 00:01 David Hart: When the southern kingdom of Judah refused to repent, her fate was sealed, and
  • 00:07 judgment was coming, but Jeremiah saw a future restoration and a New Covenant.
  • 00:11 Coming up next, on "Our Jewish Roots."
  • 00:14 ♪♪♪
  • 00:19 male narrator: In the sixth century B.C., one man stood
  • 00:23 alone against the pervading wickedness of God's people
  • 00:26 in the land of Judah.
  • 00:28 The prophet Jeremiah was chosen by the Lord to warn of the
  • 00:32 impending judgment that would come at the hands
  • 00:35 of the Babylonians.
  • 00:37 Visions of an exile left him heartbroken and in tears, but
  • 00:42 Jeremiah remained faithful to his calling and recorded a
  • 00:46 message that would speak to generations yet to come.
  • 00:51 Standing tall with faith and God, he understood better days
  • 00:56 were coming, and there was "Hope Over the Horizon."
  • 01:02 ♪♪♪
  • 01:06 David: We're so glad you've joined us today.
  • 01:07 I am David Hart.
  • 01:09 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
  • 01:10 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
  • 01:11 Kirsten: You look really nice today in the suit and tie.
  • 01:15 How are you?
  • 01:16 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I decided to bump it up a little bit
  • 01:18 in person.
  • 01:19 I really did.
  • 01:20 David: Pastoral role it looks like today for you.
  • 01:22 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, even aside from the set here, I
  • 01:23 decided to--
  • 01:25 David: I feel underdressed. Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Please.
  • 01:26 Kirsten: We noticed. You look great.
  • 01:27 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, you're kind.
  • 01:29 Thank you.
  • 01:30 David: Okay, we're in our 43rd year of ministry in this
  • 01:31 place, and this is the first time that Jeremiah has been
  • 01:34 brought up.
  • 01:36 I wonder why it's taken so long to talk about Jeremiah?
  • 01:38 Any ideas?
  • 01:39 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, when I see him in heaven, he might
  • 01:41 raise the same question, but I thought it was apropos, and our
  • 01:43 producer, Ken Berg, did as well.
  • 01:45 Jeremiah's world, in so many ways, was so like our own.
  • 01:49 The political situation was really precarious.
  • 01:53 The religious condition in the political situation was really
  • 01:58 not what it needed to be, and into that world came
  • 02:00 a prophetic voice.
  • 02:02 We thought we might learn something by examining
  • 02:04 what he had to say.
  • 02:05 Kirsten: I have a lot of feelings in my heart
  • 02:08 for Jeremiah.
  • 02:10 He was called young.
  • 02:12 He had this message that was burning inside of him, and he
  • 02:15 had to get it out.
  • 02:16 God said, "You're not gonna marry."
  • 02:18 His family left him, but still he pressed on even with a
  • 02:22 message that was horrible for everyone to hear.
  • 02:25 No one wanted to hear what he had to say.
  • 02:27 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And I agree, even beyond the message
  • 02:29 itself, to consider the messenger, to your point, there
  • 02:33 is something to be said about toughening up and pressing in
  • 02:37 and enduring, and I think we all need to do that, and he's an
  • 02:41 example of that, to your point.
  • 02:43 Kirsten: We're excited for the whole series.
  • 02:44 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Me too.
  • 02:45 Kirsten: Looking forward to it.
  • 02:47 David: Dr. Seif, we're gonna hear more from you in a bit, but
  • 02:48 right now, let's hear more of Jeremiah's story.
  • 02:52 narrator: It's been a long, dark period in the history
  • 02:55 of Judah.
  • 02:56 For years, the prophet Jeremiah and his scribe, Baruch, have
  • 03:00 faithfully recorded the words of the Lord.
  • 03:03 Sadly, the message of pending judgment has been ignored.
  • 03:07 Jeremiah is left wondering, "Why?
  • 03:10 Why have the hearts of God's people turn to stone?"
  • 03:16 Jeremiah: [speaking Hebrew]
  • 03:23 [speaking Hebrew]
  • 03:31 [speaking Hebrew]
  • 03:39 Baruch: [speaking Hebrew]
  • 03:51 Jeremiah: [speaking Hebrew]
  • 04:02 Baruch: [speaking Hebrew]
  • 04:11 Jeremiah: [speaking Hebrew]
  • 04:16 [speaking Hebrew]
  • 04:28 ♪♪♪
  • 04:36 Baruch: [speaking Hebrew]
  • 04:47 ♪♪♪
  • 04:53 Jeremiah: [speaking Hebrew]
  • 05:00 [speaking Hebrew]
  • 05:08 [speaking Hebrew]
  • 05:18 [speaking Hebrew]
  • 05:33 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I grew up in a German-Jewish world.
  • 05:37 My own family, the neighborhood I lived in was constituted by
  • 05:41 people that just got out of the Holocaust.
  • 05:44 Yiddish was a common language.
  • 05:46 Yiddish is like a European-Hebrew dialect.
  • 05:50 I used to hear words kicked around, like, "oy," which means,
  • 05:53 "oh" or "woe," or "oy vey iz mir," "woe is me," or "oy
  • 05:59 gevalt," "oh, violence."
  • 06:03 And, of course, the world where I fare from, people were
  • 06:06 reflecting, to a certain extent, on the violence that they had
  • 06:09 escaped, Nazi Germany.
  • 06:11 I mention this here at the outset of a series on Jeremiah
  • 06:14 is because Yirmiyahu, the prophet Jeremiah, he sees
  • 06:18 violence coming, but it's not precipitated by another nation,
  • 06:22 though another nation is bringing it, but it's
  • 06:24 precipitated by the sins of the people.
  • 06:31 It is a tough story to tell.
  • 06:34 I think of a story John Steinbeck, you might recall, a
  • 06:38 classic English writer, wrote a book "The Grapes of Wrath."
  • 06:42 There was a series about that, a television program, I should
  • 06:45 say, and it harks to--actually, his wife came up with the term
  • 06:50 to speak of fermenting discontent.
  • 06:52 It's voiced in the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," where God is
  • 06:55 "trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored."
  • 07:01 In the "Battle Hymn," of course, we live at a time where there
  • 07:04 was political intrigue and fomented into war, and the
  • 07:08 "grapes of wrath" speak of that growing discontent.
  • 07:12 Jeremiah wasn't game to use that term, but he saw a pot
  • 07:17 boiling over.
  • 07:18 You can think of soldiers scaling a wall and oil being
  • 07:22 poured down, this hot destruction.
  • 07:25 Oh, goodness, the prophet saw it, which is why he wasn't so
  • 07:30 keen to even be a prophet.
  • 07:32 Noted in the Hebrew, I'll read it in chapter 1, verse 5.
  • 07:37 [speaking Hebrew]
  • 07:39 The Lord says, "I've appointed you," or "I've given you to this
  • 07:42 particular task."
  • 07:44 [speaking Hebrew]
  • 07:45 That is, "to be a prophet, a voice to the nations."
  • 07:50 [speaking Hebrew]
  • 07:51 And he says, "I have appointed you."
  • 07:55 Many would be thrilled by that, you know.
  • 07:58 If you've ever been to an ordination service for people
  • 08:00 going into the ministry, it tends to be a rather exciting
  • 08:03 time for those that are beckoned to give voice to the good news.
  • 08:08 The problem here, while there is good news, the good news
  • 08:13 is over the horizon.
  • 08:16 What's at the forefront, indeed, is bad news, and he saw it.
  • 08:21 He knew the dogs of war were going to be unleashed onto the
  • 08:26 people of Judah.
  • 08:28 It happened over a century prior when the Assyrians invaded and
  • 08:33 sacked the northern kingdom, but as Jeremiah says elsewhere in
  • 08:38 the book, he says, "Judah, the southern kingdom, was worse than
  • 08:42 her sister in the north, and she too has an appointment
  • 08:49 with judgment."
  • 08:52 Happily, Jeremiah found some help in the telling of it.
  • 08:57 We're told in chapter 36, and isn't it good to have a friend?
  • 09:03 [speaking Hebrew]
  • 09:06 "And Jeremiah called
  • 09:07 et Baruch, to Baruch.
  • 09:10 [speaking Hebrew]
  • 09:13 He found a friend, someone to help him in the telling
  • 09:17 of the story.
  • 09:19 And while Jeremiah was a speaking prophet, Baruch
  • 09:23 commended it to writing.
  • 09:25 We're gonna look at his world.
  • 09:27 We're gonna look at the word that's delivered in that world.
  • 09:31 We're gonna see dark times to be sure, but, happily, we're going
  • 09:36 to see hope over the horizon.
  • 09:40 ♪♪♪
  • 09:45 Jeremiah: [speaking Hebrew]
  • 09:54 Jeremiah: [speaking Hebrew]
  • 10:03 [speaking Hebrew]
  • 10:11 ♪♪♪
  • 10:15 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: He's referred to as "the lonely
  • 10:17 prophet" because he was told not to marry.
  • 10:21 He's referred to as "the weeping prophet" because
  • 10:25 he's very effusive.
  • 10:27 A number of times in the book, he's weeping over his message
  • 10:31 because it was a tough story to tell.
  • 10:36 When I compare Yirmiyahu, Jeremiah, to other prophets, I
  • 10:41 think he had a weaker constitution than some.
  • 10:45 Isaiah, for example, "Lord, here I am, send me," there's a little
  • 10:48 more verve, a little more willingness to go into it, but
  • 10:52 Yirmiyahu, Jeremiah, went kicking and screaming.
  • 10:55 He didn't want the assignment.
  • 10:57 When Isaiah ministered, there still was an opportunity for
  • 10:59 things to turn around, but Yirmiyahu
  • 11:03 was a deathbed prophet.
  • 11:06 The sins of the nation had, you know, had come full term like a
  • 11:11 baby about to be born.
  • 11:13 Prophets had come, a number of them.
  • 11:17 A number of days, a number of ways had predicted bad things
  • 11:21 to come.
  • 11:22 They went unheeded.
  • 11:25 So what have we here?
  • 11:28 I'll tell you what we have.
  • 11:29 We hear a prophet in chapter 8, verse 21.
  • 11:33 He says [speaking Hebrew]
  • 11:35 or he says, "I hurt," [speaking Hebrew]
  • 11:39 "for the daughter of my people," [speaking Hebrew]
  • 11:44 "I hurt, I'm seized."
  • 11:48 If you can just pick up the feeling of the moment, I think
  • 11:54 many of us in our culture today similarly hurt.
  • 11:58 We're concerned.
  • 12:01 To be sure, in his day, Jeremiah was very cognizant of a culture
  • 12:06 that had veered off the beaten path.
  • 12:11 He beckons them to return to the ancient ways,
  • 12:15 but they were recalcitrant.
  • 12:17 They weren't game to do it, and so too it seems we live in a
  • 12:23 world today, in our own culture, where there is a veering off
  • 12:29 path, and the leaders are principal in guiding it, and who
  • 12:35 are the leaders yesterday?
  • 12:37 Yirmiyahu, Jeremiah, goes after the kings.
  • 12:41 He goes after the powerful, prophets, priests.
  • 12:45 Who are the powerful in our culture today?
  • 12:48 Big corporations, media, political structures.
  • 12:53 I believe Jeremiah would be calling them out today, and you
  • 12:59 know what he'd say today?
  • 13:01 The same thing as he said yesterday, "I hurt."
  • 13:08 What was resonating in Jeremiah's breast in his day
  • 13:13 resonates in the hearts and minds of many today.
  • 13:18 We hurt.
  • 13:22 We are concerned.
  • 13:25 We see a bad moon rising.
  • 13:31 This is indeed very true.
  • 13:33 It's not only true today.
  • 13:35 It's true to Jeremiah's day, and in this series, we're game to
  • 13:40 explore the relationships, but I should say as well that not only
  • 13:46 do we see that bad moon rising, we see in the forefront
  • 13:53 difficulties just like Jeremiah did, but the book of Jeremiah
  • 13:58 is checkered.
  • 13:59 It's salted in different spaces and different places with word
  • 14:03 of a good thing to come of a turnaround, and, finally,
  • 14:07 there's not just a verse or two, but there's a whole section that
  • 14:11 speaks about a New Covenant, a new way, and a new day.
  • 14:16 In addition to speaking about what's at the forefront, that is
  • 14:19 to say, "I hurt," in this series, we're gonna look at
  • 14:24 what's over the horizon, and that is hope and healing,
  • 14:30 something that Jeremiah saw in his day and something we're
  • 14:36 minded to bring to you as we consider his world and our very
  • 14:41 own as we look at Yirmiyahu, the prophet, and consider the "Hope
  • 14:49 Over the Horizon."
  • 14:51 ♪♪♪
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  • 15:32 ♪♪♪
  • 15:37 ♪ Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim. ♪
  • 15:41 ♪ Sha'alu, Sha'alu, Shalom. ♪
  • 15:45 ♪ For the holy city of Jerusalem, ♪
  • 15:52 ♪ we will pray for peace, ♪
  • 15:55 ♪ Sha'alu, Shalom. ♪
  • 16:04 ♪ Shalom. ♪♪
  • 16:10 Kirsten: We're so thankful that you are watching us today.
  • 16:12 I know many watch on their televisions, but we are also all
  • 16:16 over social media.
  • 16:18 We have extra interviews, extra insights.
  • 16:21 There are programs that we put out on social media.
  • 16:24 Find us.
  • 16:25 Easy to find, @OurJewishRoots, and we will see you there.
  • 16:31 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes, it's all about raising awareness.
  • 16:34 There are so many issues in the world today that we think we do
  • 16:38 well to interpret through a biblical lens.
  • 16:42 In order to raise awareness, I'd like to speak to you because we
  • 16:46 need to raise funds to help raise awareness.
  • 16:51 We're not looking to raise our standards of living, personally,
  • 16:56 in petitioning you to get behind us and support us.
  • 17:00 The "us" is less the persons.
  • 17:02 I want you to know that, and I mean it sincerely, but it's to
  • 17:06 raise awareness.
  • 17:07 We live in interesting times, and as we lean in on this
  • 17:12 series, we're going to see how Jeremiah's ancient word is very
  • 17:17 much a word for our own world.
  • 17:20 Oh, we're gonna get the Word out, all right, through
  • 17:23 television, through social media, particularly there to
  • 17:26 reach the young, though not exclusively the young.
  • 17:29 I wanna ask you, please, be gracious and help us to do so,
  • 17:32 and I believe God will bless you in so doing.
  • 17:36 We not only raise awareness, we bring to your attention people
  • 17:39 you wouldn't otherwise know.
  • 17:41 Dr. Michael Brown is coming to us in this series.
  • 17:45 He's a personal friend of mine.
  • 17:47 When I say, "doctor," an earned a PhD, an expert in 11 dead
  • 17:55 languages--an interesting guy.
  • 17:57 Oh, he can help you take a look at the book, penetrating
  • 18:00 insights into Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, and he's going to
  • 18:04 help us bring Jeremiah's world and word to you.
  • 18:11 Dr. Michael Brown: You know what's fascinating
  • 18:12 about Jeremiah?
  • 18:13 He receives this intense calling from God.
  • 18:15 As best as we can tell, he's just a teenager.
  • 18:18 And later on in the 20th chapter, he says, "God, you
  • 18:21 deceived me.
  • 18:22 You overpowered me."
  • 18:24 Those same Hebrew verbs, if they were used in another context,
  • 18:27 to talk about someone being raped and sexually abused.
  • 18:30 That's how he felt spiritually.
  • 18:32 "God, you took advantage of me.
  • 18:34 I was just a kid.
  • 18:35 Yeah, you told me that everybody would be against me, but I had
  • 18:38 no idea what it would really mean.
  • 18:40 You said I'm gonna be a prophet to the nations."
  • 18:42 He felt as if God set him up and enticed him and lured him in,
  • 18:47 and he was deceived.
  • 18:48 That was in a moment of great brokenness and pain, but here's
  • 18:50 the remarkable thing: Jeremiah never once backed down
  • 18:55 in public.
  • 18:57 He never once compromised his message despite the agony,
  • 19:01 despite the pain, despite the conflict of having to bring
  • 19:04 negative destructive words for decades, and think of it: You
  • 19:08 don't want them to come to pass because that would be terrible,
  • 19:11 but you want them to come to pass because you legitimately
  • 19:13 heard from God.
  • 19:15 It's this agony, this tension that he lived with, but in all
  • 19:19 of it, remarkably because of his intimacy with God, because of
  • 19:23 his love for God and his love for his people,
  • 19:26 he never backed down.
  • 19:27 He never compromised.
  • 19:29 So you get some of these chapters, the glimpses behind
  • 19:32 the scene, the agony of the prophet, the valleys but also
  • 19:35 the mountaintops because he met with God, he knew God, he had to
  • 19:39 be faithful to God, and that's why God can take this young man,
  • 19:43 just a na'ar, just a youth, and use him as a prophet
  • 19:46 to the nations.
  • 19:47 ♪♪♪
  • 19:55 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Jeremiah saw that judgment was coming in
  • 19:59 the form of Babylonia to come and execute God's wrath.
  • 20:04 He beckoned individuals to turn to the Lord.
  • 20:07 They had another idea: Let's turn to Egypt, instead, to help
  • 20:13 us against the Babylonians.
  • 20:15 That was their "stimulus package."
  • 20:18 "Well, we don't need to make a religious issue out of it.
  • 20:21 There are political troubles of the day, and we just need to do
  • 20:25 this or that."
  • 20:29 What's the "this" and the "that" today?
  • 20:32 "Let's print more money.
  • 20:34 Let's get rid of the police.
  • 20:37 Let's do this.
  • 20:39 Let's do that.
  • 20:42 This will help us.
  • 20:43 This is the cure that we need.
  • 20:48 Never mind going back to the values that made this country
  • 20:51 what it is.
  • 20:53 Let's revise all that and do something new."
  • 20:58 That was the mood of the day, and into that mood, in Jeremiah
  • 21:03 chapter 1, verse 13 and 14, he sees the seething pot, judgment
  • 21:12 coming, and in verse 14-- [speaking Hebrew]
  • 21:17 "And the Lord said to me--" [speaking Hebrew]
  • 21:22 "From the north--" [speaking Hebrew]
  • 21:28 "I'll call--" that's "From the north," he says, "evil will
  • 21:34 break forth on the inhabitants of this land."
  • 21:39 Now, to be sure, that wasn't a popular message.
  • 21:46 The word of the prophet isn't popular, but it is profitable if
  • 21:53 it will be heeded.
  • 21:58 Unfortunately, in Jeremiah's day, it wasn't,
  • 22:03 and judgment was forthcoming.
  • 22:06 That was his day.
  • 22:08 That was his world.
  • 22:11 We live in our day, and we have our world.
  • 22:16 Will we heed?
  • 22:18 Will we turn to the Lord?
  • 22:22 If we do, as Jeremiah said, we can find hope over the horizon.
  • 22:32 David: Jeremiah was a young priest.
  • 22:34 All seemed to be going well for him, and all of a sudden, he was
  • 22:37 called to be a prophet and didn't really want the job, and
  • 22:41 I say, "Who would?"
  • 22:43 You know?
  • 22:44 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: God has a way of interrupting people's
  • 22:46 lives, doesn't he?
  • 22:48 Kirsten: And this is a perfect example.
  • 22:50 I think he was fine.
  • 22:51 We get to a place in life, like, "We're fine.
  • 22:54 We're good.
  • 22:55 We don't need to ruffle any feathers," and, my goodness, the
  • 22:58 call on Jeremiah's life, he was to ruffle everyone's feathers.
  • 23:02 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, I think it was a tough world, and
  • 23:04 a sensitive soul as he is evidenced in the literature, he
  • 23:08 was indeed aware of it, but it's one thing to be aware of a
  • 23:12 problem and then to be called to confront people with it.
  • 23:17 Then, in the eyes of others, you become the problem, and he had
  • 23:21 to absorb a lot of tension that a lot of people would rather
  • 23:24 not do.
  • 23:26 Kirsten: He didn't--to me, part of the--mm, should I say,
  • 23:29 "sad thing" is that he was also told he couldn't marry.
  • 23:33 He didn't have that support back at home.
  • 23:36 And we've been married 32 years.
  • 23:39 You are my support.
  • 23:40 When I'm going through something, I can talk to you.
  • 23:42 We can work it out together.
  • 23:44 And here's Jeremiah.
  • 23:46 That, to me, that's rough.
  • 23:48 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I, just, I wouldn't personally wanna be
  • 23:51 without a woman, and, you know, I was married 30 years, and my
  • 23:56 first wife went on to be with the Lord, and then the Lord was
  • 23:59 gracious enough to grace me with another, Barri, and I just
  • 24:04 wouldn't want life without Barri.
  • 24:08 You know, I'm like a kite, and she's the tail that keeps me
  • 24:11 steady in the sky, and--but it wasn't just Jeremiah's word.
  • 24:17 His life was an object lesson.
  • 24:20 Because the world was going to hell in a handbasket, why bother
  • 24:24 bringing children into it?
  • 24:26 There was a point behind that.
  • 24:28 He's testifying to the fact that there's a bad moon rising, and
  • 24:35 he suffered for the sake of the message.
  • 24:39 Kirsten: It's interesting that you mentioned that you're
  • 24:42 the kite and Barri's your tail.
  • 24:44 I guess God was to be his tail.
  • 24:47 God was to be his support.
  • 24:49 God was to be his comforter.
  • 24:51 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Right, and it's just because I don't think
  • 24:53 I could live without Barri, and I can't.
  • 24:55 In fact, right now, as we speak, she's actually landing
  • 24:58 in Israel.
  • 24:59 She has a ministry work that she does there, and I told her
  • 25:03 before she goes how--the same thing about I'm just gonna
  • 25:06 miss her.
  • 25:07 I need her in my world, and she was like, "Well, don't worry.
  • 25:10 We can FaceTime back and forth," and we're texting while
  • 25:12 she's on the airplane.
  • 25:14 I just so need her.
  • 25:15 I don't know what I'd do, but the reality is, if I had to do
  • 25:18 without her, we do have an able God.
  • 25:20 That's your point.
  • 25:21 Kirsten: Mm-hmm.
  • 25:23 David: Quite a roller-coaster ride that he was on.
  • 25:24 Some good times in his life but so much that he had to endure,
  • 25:28 thrown in a pit, and, just, so much.
  • 25:31 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: We know more about that man's personal
  • 25:34 life than any other prophet in the older testament because
  • 25:39 there's a lot of self-disclosure, and I get into
  • 25:42 that when we examine him.
  • 25:44 He gives voice to it.
  • 25:45 His own experience admits the moments
  • 25:49 that he finds himself in.
  • 25:51 Kirsten: And he carried a burden, but he also carried
  • 25:55 hope, and I love that as the extremes in the book and in his
  • 25:59 life and his message.
  • 26:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: To that point, and that's the difference
  • 26:02 between someone with biblical vision.
  • 26:05 A lot of people, you know, carry burdens in this world.
  • 26:08 It's just a tough world, but while we do have the burden, we
  • 26:12 have more than a burden.
  • 26:14 What a great point to go out on, by the way.
  • 26:17 Kirsten: There is a hope. Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes.
  • 26:19 Kirsten: There is hope, and Jeremiah brings that.
  • 26:21 Well, this is the first one in our series.
  • 26:22 We hope that all of you come back.
  • 26:25 Dr. Seif has good words.
  • 26:27 Dr. Michael Brown has great insight, and we look forward to
  • 26:31 more programs in this series.
  • 26:33 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And you both have somethin' going for
  • 26:35 you too, but we're out of time.
  • 26:37 I hope to see you again.
  • 26:39 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim.
  • 26:42 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
  • 26:44 ♪♪♪
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Episodes in this series

  1. Young Man’s Visions
  2. Sounding the Alarm
  3. Corruption and Closed Minds
  4. Faith Abandoned and Reimagined
  5. No Escape
  6. Promises Made
  7. Ruin and Renewal
  8. Hope and a Future
  9. Jeremiah in Retrospect

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