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Episode: “A Messianic Proto-type”

The New Testament refers to Jesus as the “Son of David”—with good reason. We examine how the Old Testament predicted a coming Davidic Son.

Series: “The Warrior King (2019)”

David-like Leadership for Goliath-like times

This series originally produced in 2009, Warrior King: David-like Leadership in Goliath-like Times not only tells the story of King David’s time; but also the story of our own time. With challenges larger than Goliath all around us, we need Bible-based leaders now more than ever. Dr. Jeffrey Seif taught this eight-part series from Israel. David and Kirsten Hart join Jeff in the studio for up-to-date analysis of each program’s teachings. We also get location reports from Chaim Malespin and hear the music of Zola Levitt.

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Caption transcript for The Warrior King (2019): “A Messianic Proto-type” (6/8)

00:01 David Hart: The New Testament refers to Jesus as the Son of David, why? Find out today on
00:08 "Zola Levitt Presents." ♪♪♪
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00:56 David: We are so glad you've joined us today
00:58 on "Zola Levitt Presents," I'm David Hart.
01:00 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart. Jeffrey Seif: Jeffrey Seif.
01:02 Here today to talk about what's in here.
01:07 We're gonna connect the dots between the Old Testament
01:10 and New Testament, and you are gonna love it.
01:13 Kirsten: And we're talking about lineage.
01:14 In the Bible, lineage is very important.
01:17 And Yeshua Messiah came from King David.
01:21 That is important because?
01:23 Jeffrey: Proves he was Jewish. Kirsten: That's good.
01:25 Jeffrey: People forget that, by the way,
01:27 but Zola Levitt Ministries reminds 'em week by week.
01:31 Kirsten: And I'm adopted, so I look at my lineage
01:34 and it's kind of sketchy.
01:36 Where did I come from?
01:37 There's no accident in where Yeshua came from.
01:39 He came right from King David.
01:41 Jeffrey: Yes. David: That's right.
01:42 Right now let's go to our dramatic reenactment
01:44 and teaching from Dr. Seif in Israel.
01:48 ♪♪♪
01:52 male narrator: It was the 8th century B.C.
01:55 The prophet Isaiah was troubled because the kingdom
01:58 had become defiled by godless rulers.
02:01 Surrounded by the ruthless and the wicked,
02:04 he has a vision of a better day.
02:08 He writes of a coming David-like king:
02:11 "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse
02:16 and a branch out of his roots.
02:19 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him.
02:23 The spirit of wisdom and understanding,
02:26 the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge
02:32 and of the fear of the Lord.
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02:45 Jeffrey: You are looking at one of the most fantastic finds
02:50 in biblical archeology.
02:55 In the 40s, a Bedouin discovered scrolls that hit
02:58 the world by storm.
03:01 And you're looking at a facsimile here.
03:04 Actually, I am in the Shine of the Book and here we're looking
03:08 at an ancient book: the book of Isaiah.
03:12 Copied by the sectaries at Qumran many years ago.
03:18 Isaiah was a fascinating personality, and he's worth
03:23 considering when we consider David Melech Yisrael,
03:28 David the king of Israel.
03:30 Though Isaiah himself wasn't part of David's administration,
03:34 actually he wished he was and the reason why is because Isaiah
03:40 made his entrance onto the stage of the human drama during the
03:44 administration of Uzziah, a king who started off good enough
03:49 but a king who went bad.
03:52 He went south.
03:55 Isaiah saw his demise and it's recorded in the book of Kings
03:59 and the book of Chronicles.
04:01 Not only is it recorded but it said as much that Isaiah was the
04:06 historian that talked about the demise of Judah under Uzziah's
04:11 ministration and it's perhaps for that reason when Isaiah
04:16 began his prophetic administration he spoke
04:20 to the pathetic first.
04:22 You can't read the first five chapters of Isaiah without your
04:27 toes curling in your shoes when you hear his harsh invective,
04:32 his diatribe, how that prophet gave voice to a world gone bad.
04:39 Priests, the religious, the secular,
04:42 everyone who was anyone was on the take.
04:46 And against the backdrop of that Draconian introduction,
04:49 the 11th chapter, however, as we see here,
04:52 Isaiah spoke of a coming king, a David-like king.
04:57 We're told in chapter 11: "There'll come forth a rod from
05:01 the stump of Jesse, and a branch will grow from his roots."
05:06 Remember that Jesse was David's father and the Davidic house,
05:11 in effect, was cut down but there will--emerge from
05:15 that a righteous branch-- a righteous one, a mashiach,
05:19 a messianic character.
05:21 We're told here,
05:23 [speaking foreign language]
05:25 the Spirit of the Lord will rest upon him.
05:27 The spirit of wisdom and understanding, counsel, might,
05:30 knowledge, fear of the Lord.
05:32 His delight will be in the fear of the Lord."
05:35 [speaking foreign language]
05:37 The fear of the Lord doesn't speak of trepidation and panic
05:40 as much as it does of respect and because he respects
05:44 the Lord, he respects others.
05:46 Isaiah was chagrined, and why is that?
05:49 Because the kingdom was vitiated, it was defiled,
05:52 beneath the hands of godless rulers.
05:55 He says in 10:2: "They robbed the needy of justice,
06:00 they take what is right from the poor of my people,
06:05 the widows are their prey."
06:07 He goes on in the 10th chapter, verse 2 and 12, he says
06:10 that "people are robbed of their treasuries."
06:12 Again, like our world where the wicked take advantage
06:16 of the weaker.
06:18 Isaiah sees a Davidic-like leader who re-emerges
06:22 even centuries after David.
06:24 And this is this messianic personality.
06:26 We're told here that his delight will be in the fear of the Lord
06:30 and he will rule with justice and equity
06:33 and fairness and goodness.
06:35 Now listen to me.
06:36 We need that kind of godly leadership in our godless world.
06:41 And I am concerned, personally.
06:45 I don't know what you look for in leadership, be it civil
06:49 or religious but personally, individuals that resonate with
06:53 Judeo-Christian ethics really matter to me and when
06:57 I don't see that, I am gravely concerned.
07:03 Isaiah pointed to the day when someone would emerge likened
07:07 unto David and this reflects the fact that among other things
07:11 that the memory of David is alive and may the memory be
07:15 alive in our day as we're with some measured anxiety
07:19 looking into the future.
07:21 May it be your prayer with mine that godly people wield
07:26 influence in our culture to the end that we may be better
07:30 by virtue of their so doing.
07:35 male: And the Lord said, "Woe to the shepherd who destroys
07:39 and scatters the sheep of my pasture.
07:41 Therefore, thus says the Lord God of Israel against the
07:45 shepherd who feeds my people, you have scattered my flock,
07:50 driven them away, and not attended to them.
07:53 Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings,
07:57 says the Lord."
08:04 Jeffrey: Behind me is a scaled version of the city of David
08:09 in Yerushalaim in Jerusalem.
08:12 Actually, here in modern Israel, folks spent a small fortune
08:15 to reconstruct that and it's beautiful.
08:18 I'm told by a friend, Eli Asides, that this site is
08:22 along with Masada one of the most frequented sites
08:25 that pilgrims wanna check into when they visit Israel.
08:29 And they're excited to see it.
08:31 Jirmeyah, Jeremiah, however, looked at this portion
08:34 of the city and he was not a happy camper.
08:36 And why is that?
08:38 Well, he says in the 23rd chapter of his own book--
08:41 Jirmeyah, Jeremiah, is on record saying, "Woe is the shepherds
08:44 who destroy and scatter the sheep."
08:48 Jirmeyah, Jeremiah, saw destruction coming
08:51 upon the city of David.
08:53 Yerushalaim was going to take a hit by the Babylonians,
08:57 and why is that?
08:59 Because Jeremiah says the priests were vitiated, defiled.
09:04 The secular rulers were defiled as well.
09:08 In so many ways, it was a world like our own, that is to say
09:11 there's the pretense of religion and virtue but the world
09:15 had long since abandoned biblical ethics.
09:19 And so it is that Jirmeyah, Jeremiah, went on record saying
09:22 that the sheep are going to be scattered and so they were.
09:28 That's the bad news.
09:29 The good news, however, is that Jirmeyah envisioned
09:32 a good world to come.
09:34 And I'm glad he did, by the way.
09:36 He didn't just leave his constituents despairing
09:38 as we're gonna see in a moment when we look in the Bible.
09:41 Though he himself despaired, Jirmeyah is called the weeping
09:45 prophet, he's so very effusive, emotive, he's weeping, why?
09:49 'Cause he sees this beauty falling apart.
09:52 He's called the lonely prophet as well because this priestly
09:55 prophet was told never to marry and bear children
09:59 because the children were just destined for the slave market,
10:02 if not death outright when the Babylonians
10:05 were going to come and rape and pillage and plunder,
10:08 and come they did.
10:10 Jirmeyah, Jeremiah, as I'd said, saw a bad moon rising over this
10:14 world that sadly is so much like our own but not only that,
10:19 happily however, he telescopes to the future and he sees
10:24 a bright spot beginning to emerge over the horizon
10:28 like the sun rising from the east and displacing
10:31 the prevailing darkness.
10:33 He says in verse 5 in his own words: "Behold,
10:35 the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up
10:38 to David a branch of righteousness."
10:43 We heard in the Isaiahnic passage earlier about
10:46 the Netzer, the branch that will spring forth.
10:49 And by the way, that's why in the New Testament Jesus
10:52 is associated with a city called Nazaret, Nazareth.
10:56 It's named after the same.
10:58 That connection wouldn't have been lost to Jewish people
11:01 in the 1st century of this, the common era.
11:04 In any case, Jeremiah telescopes into the future and he sees
11:09 this Davidic person coming.
11:11 David's been dead for years by the time he speaks and David's
11:15 been dead by--for millennia, but even in the Jewish world today
11:19 we sing "David Melech Yisrael chai vekayam,"
11:22 David the king of Israel lives,
11:25 because the memory lives and why is that?
11:27 Because the prophets kept his memory alive and why is that?
11:30 Because against the backdrop of a decaying world, they saw
11:35 there would be an emergent Davidic-like leader.
11:38 We're told in verse 6: "In his days Judah will be saved."
11:43 And he says under his administration,
11:46 "Israel will dwell securely."
11:48 And then he goes on to speak of this leader and says,
11:51 "And this is the name by which he shall be called:
11:55 Adonai Tsidkenu, the Lord our Righteousness."
12:00 I don't know how you feel but in many ways I'm discouraged
12:05 when I look out--I'm not the wisest owl in the forest--
12:08 but when I look out over my perch, I'm not a happy
12:11 camper when I look at our own culture.
12:14 I see an abandonment of Judeo-Christian ethics.
12:17 I see a pretense of religion but people deny the power of it.
12:22 I find people talking the talk but I find rot and decay,
12:26 and frankly I find it in high places.
12:29 Like Jeremiah and like you, perhaps, I, we, he, look forward
12:33 to the day when we'll see this emergent leadership.
12:37 This series is called "The Warrior King," and we're looking
12:40 for David-like leadership in Goliath-like times.
12:46 May it be that more and more women and men stand up
12:48 for biblical virtue in a world where that virtue is
12:52 in very high demand and very short supply.
12:58 ♪♪♪
13:10 male announcer: Are Gentile believers meant to adopt
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13:22 resource, "What About Us?"
13:25 In this book Eitan uncovers concrete scriptural evidence of
13:28 God's original plan for Jews and Gentiles to become one in
13:33 Messiah and work together for salvation of national Israel.
13:37 Learn the importance of how the Gentile church should relate
13:40 to the remarkable messianic movement
13:42 of Jews accepting Jesus.
13:44 An important read for believers of all walks of life.
13:47 Please call us or go online and ask for the resource,
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14:49 Now, let's go back to Israel as we follow King David's story
14:53 and also more teaching with Dr. Seif.
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14:59 male: "Thus saith the Lord God unto them,
15:02 Therefore will I save my flock and they shall no more be prey.
15:07 I will set up one shepherd over them and he shall feed them.
15:12 Even my servant David, he shall feed them.
15:16 And he shall be their shepherd and I, the Lord,
15:20 will be their God.
15:22 And my servant David, a prince among them.
15:26 I the Lord have spoken it."
15:32 Jeffrey: I'm coming to you from the Kidron Valley.
15:36 To my left, you can't see it, the ancient temple once stood
15:41 and now there's Turkish walls round about it.
15:44 To my right, the Mount of Olives.
15:47 And here in a valley where shepherds used to frequent
15:51 verdant lands but that was yesteryear.
15:55 Behind me is a monument to a name that's not often
15:59 repeated here in Israel.
16:03 It's a monument to Absalom and why he would be remembered
16:07 in a place like this is anybody's guess.
16:11 Because truth be known, he himself is persona non grata,
16:16 and why is that?
16:17 Because Absalom was David's son who sought to kill him.
16:22 He drove David out of his own palace, made the king run
16:26 for his life in the later years of his life as Absalom--
16:30 the name Avi means my father and shalom is peace.
16:36 He has a name connected to peace.
16:38 My father is peace.
16:40 But he gave his father tsuris, truth be known.
16:43 Tsuris, he gave him aggravations as he sought to undermine him.
16:49 David lived in a precarious world.
16:51 This Absalom scattered the sheep, drove David away,
16:56 caused angst in the culture, and you know what?
16:59 When there's bad leadership that comes to power,
17:02 it does much the same.
17:05 David must have been spellbound with grief when he considered
17:10 what had happened.
17:12 Not only his own political dislocation but the fact that
17:16 his own son, his wicked son who killed his brother previously
17:20 by the way, that he has come to power and David
17:24 was not a happy camper.
17:28 Well, Ezekiel remembers this story years later.
17:33 That is to say, the David story.
17:36 And why is that?
17:37 Because Ezekiel inhabited a world much like David did
17:41 in the sense that bad people had come to power.
17:46 In fact, the wound in Judah was irreparable.
17:50 It was not to be fixed.
17:52 Judgment was meted out, and why is that?
17:56 Because wickedness rained from the palace,
17:59 wickedness rained from the pulpit, and wickedness
18:02 was ubiquitous in the pew everywhere.
18:06 And it was not to be fixed.
18:08 So much for the bad news.
18:11 Difficulties notwithstanding, in a world where the righteous were
18:14 disconcerted and scattered, Ezekiel telegraphed out into the
18:18 future and he envisioned that a good shepherd will emerge.
18:23 He says--he lambasts in the 34th chapter these bad shepherds
18:29 that are heaving discontent in the culture but then he goes on
18:33 to say, difficulties notwithstanding, in verse 23,
18:37 and I quote, he says, "I will establish one shepherd
18:41 over them, and he shall feed them--My servant David."
18:48 David was long since dead as of Ezekiel's writing but the memory
18:53 of this imperfect yet righteous sort, he knew what it was to
18:56 repent, he found forgiveness, he was a man after God's own heart.
19:00 Ezekiel says, "We need some of that ruling again."
19:04 Now, arguably, Ezekiel's looking forward.
19:08 His forward thrust to this coming Davidic shepherd
19:11 harks to the messianic era.
19:13 We know that, by the way, because when we look
19:15 in the New Testament in the Matthean Gospel,
19:18 the Matthew text, which was written in a Semitic language,
19:21 originally it opens up;
19:22 [speaking foreign language]
19:26 He's introduced Ben David, Ben Abraham.
19:29 The son of David.
19:31 And we know in the New Testament as Yeshua went about,
19:34 son of David, son of David, well, here Ezekiel envisions
19:37 that a Davidic son will emerge, and we're told
19:41 he will be their shepherd.
19:43 And then in verse 24: "And I, the Lord, will be their God,
19:46 and my servant David a prince among them;
19:51 I, the Lord, have spoken."
19:54 I don't know about you but that's what I want.
19:56 I look forward to the day when
19:58 sar shalom comes, when the Prince of Peace comes.
20:01 But until such time as he arrives, I want David-like
20:06 leadership in Goliath-like times ruling in our land.
20:10 I want that man after God's own heart.
20:14 I believe politicians, frankly, can be very well intended,
20:18 but I believe as well that the road to hell is paved
20:20 with good intentions.
20:22 I want praying people ruling, and you and I need to pray
20:25 for our country, for our culture, because we
20:28 want godly leadership and we need it
20:30 because we need David-like leadership
20:33 in these Goliath-like times.
20:37 Kirsten: This whole series has been about King David
20:40 and it's titled "Warrior King."
20:43 And somehow, Warrior King of David was a prototype of Messiah
20:47 but we don't see much of that warrior, sword-swinging Messiah.
20:53 Jeffrey: No, we don't.
20:55 But there's an internal kind of sword-swinging.
20:58 There's an internal kind of toughness when you think of
21:02 Jesus, the insults he absorbed, not just from outsiders
21:06 but insiders, the neglect, the abandonment, the betrayal.
21:10 There's an inner kind of toughness even in meekness, yes?
21:15 Kirsten: There is and I think everyone was waiting
21:18 for this king to arise, to-- for Yeshua to take over
21:23 military-wise like David did, but we don't see that.
21:27 Jeffrey: Yeah, and we don't see it yet, you know?
21:29 He's--if you look at the end of the story,
21:30 he is coming on a horse.
21:32 When people say, "Oh, you know, those Jews,
21:33 they got it all wrong.
21:35 They didn't understand a triumphant, militant Messiah."
21:40 Well, what, they didn't read Revelation?
21:42 I mean, there is a war to come and he is at the tip
21:44 of the spear to best the forces of darkness
21:48 and to establish a kingdom.
21:50 It's just not yet.
21:52 People are looking for him to come as the boss.
21:54 They have trouble recognizing the cross.
21:57 Two Comings.
21:58 David: I think a word that's going through my mind right now,
22:00 through what you're just saying, is that he forgave
22:03 through all of that.
22:04 He forgave.
22:06 Jeffrey: He surely did and it takes a kind
22:07 of toughness to do that.
22:10 And God is all about forgiveness.
22:12 If you look at the older Testament,
22:13 there is a story about a gracious God there.
22:16 You might have trouble seeing it.
22:18 Some envision God as some angry bear about to club us
22:22 for the things that we've done wrong.
22:24 And people mistakenly opine that the older Testament
22:28 casts that vision.
22:30 There's a gracious God there in the older Testament manifest
22:33 more clearly, to my way of thinking, in the New.
22:36 And that grace extends not just in the pages but through
22:41 the ages, even down to you.
22:44 We're all about wanting to connect the dots to show how
22:47 the Old Testament is the New Testament concealed
22:50 and the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed.
22:54 The Old Testament's an arm, the New Testament's a hand.
22:57 And it's about God reaching down with forgiveness.
23:00 David: Amen. Kirsten: That's the word.
23:02 And Isaiah tells us so beautifully about Yeshua,
23:06 about Messiah that would come.
23:09 Jeffrey: Yes, one of the things that fascinates me about
23:10 New Testament Christians is A: they weren't called Christian.
23:13 Number two, they didn't have New Testament.
23:15 They all looked at the book, the older Testament
23:18 and gave voice to Jesus therein.
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24:08 [singing foreign language]
24:16 ♪ In the holy city of Jerusalem ♪
24:23 ♪ we will pray for peace, shaalu shalom. ♪
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24:50 Kirsten: Speaking of going to Israel, we get to go there
24:52 right now by way of our friend, Chaim Malespin.
24:55 Here he is.
24:57 ♪♪♪
25:03 Chaim Malespin: Here I am at what is
25:05 a scale model of Jerusalem.
25:07 You can come closer.
25:10 And this is the temple, how it used to look.
25:13 Do you think the temple will be rebuilt, the third temple?
25:16 We know Prophet Ezekiel talks about a temple that is built
25:20 which is bigger in dimensions than any temple
25:23 we've ever seen yet.
25:25 We also know there will be a temple not made by hands which
25:27 will come from heaven and it will be the new Jerusalem.
25:30 But I'm excited to say look at the glory that was here for
25:34 years and years until, as Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai says,
25:40 "After Yeshua died, no more was there the glory in the temple."
25:44 The doors would open automatically.
25:47 You know what else?
25:48 The red cord they would tie on those temple doors, right there,
25:51 would stay red.
25:53 It would never turn white ever again.
25:55 The stone they would find in the bag, they would pull out
25:57 a stone that's either a white one or a black stone.
25:59 They would never pull out the white stone ever again because
26:03 the atonement had already been brought by Yeshua.
26:07 ♪♪♪
26:12 ♪ He said by divine right ♪
26:18 ♪ our God is calling us home. ♪
26:32 Jeffrey: The person of David really resonates
26:35 with me personally.
26:38 He wasn't perfect, he had verve, courage.
26:41 I love it.
26:43 He's a picture of things to come in the person of the Messiah.
26:47 Indeed, a prototype of Jesus Christ.
26:52 David: I think--I think there are things in his life
26:54 that we all can relate to, right, yeah.
26:57 Kirsten: And that's what makes him someone to study and
26:59 to learn about and to know that Messiah came from King David.
27:06 Jeffrey: Yes, and I'm so happy you wanna come and study
27:10 and learn with us.
27:12 Let's do this again next week.
27:14 As you go now, shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
27:18 David: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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