WEBVTT 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:05.719 Again today, a most serious heart -to -heart 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:11.480 talk. And I mean just exactly that. You and I 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:18.320 are a part of the fulfilling of Bible prophecy. 00:00:19.339 --> 00:00:26.059 We are living in an hour when it's almost total 00:00:26.059 --> 00:00:32.759 darkness. I could not sit here and give you one 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:37.299 ray of hope for the future if it were not for 00:00:37.299 --> 00:00:40.359 our simple faith in God and the things of God. 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:45.100 It's getting dark. We're nearing that midnight 00:00:45.100 --> 00:00:48.780 hour. And God knows that I am not a pessimist. 00:00:49.340 --> 00:00:57.159 You know it. But my friend, why all this nervous 00:00:57.159 --> 00:01:03.320 tension? Why are men's hearts failing them, literally 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:10.079 failing them? For fear. Tension. It's there. 00:01:12.140 --> 00:01:16.980 This is a generation of people who are so frustrated, 00:01:16.980 --> 00:01:25.359 so insecure. Volumes have been written. Millions 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:29.069 of words have been spoken. The propaganda that's 00:01:29.069 --> 00:01:33.530 going out on our television every hour of every 00:01:33.530 --> 00:01:39.849 day. The propaganda that's spewing forth from 00:01:39.849 --> 00:01:44.590 leaders of our nation, trying to bolster up security. 00:01:44.750 --> 00:01:49.950 And yet, in spite of these promises of security, 00:01:50.310 --> 00:01:58.709 there never was a people as insecure. As the 00:01:58.709 --> 00:02:04.150 man, the woman who walks the streets today. The 00:02:04.150 --> 00:02:06.549 only person who has real security in this hour 00:02:06.549 --> 00:02:11.710 is that one who is anchored in Christ Jesus. 00:02:13.550 --> 00:02:18.449 Who has security in the one who will keep his 00:02:18.449 --> 00:02:23.770 word, his promise, his covenant to the crossing 00:02:23.770 --> 00:02:27.960 of every... tea, the dotting of every eye. No 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:31.979 wonder Jesus said, heaven and earth will pass 00:02:31.979 --> 00:02:39.659 away, but my word, my promise, my covenant will 00:02:39.659 --> 00:02:46.419 never pass away. Well, sir, all right. Again, 00:02:46.419 --> 00:02:49.500 as we continue our heart -to -heart talk with 00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:53.419 the signs of the times, the Jew in Bible prophecy. 00:02:54.159 --> 00:03:00.180 That which I'm talking about is a living, vital 00:03:00.180 --> 00:03:03.960 part of the front pages of your newspaper. It's 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:08.840 like that. And yet, I'm going to read to you 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:13.439 from the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy. And please, 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.719 follow me in the reading of your own Bible. That 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:20.500 Bible has been tucked away. The only times it's 00:03:20.500 --> 00:03:22.580 ever brought out is when you have been doing 00:03:22.580 --> 00:03:26.409 your spring house cleaning. When you dust the 00:03:26.409 --> 00:03:31.650 books in your library, when you take the books 00:03:31.650 --> 00:03:34.930 off of the bookshelves and you do a little dusting 00:03:34.930 --> 00:03:37.990 and a little cleaning and then you put the Bible 00:03:37.990 --> 00:03:41.150 right back where it was and it remains there 00:03:41.150 --> 00:03:45.030 until you clean house again, take it out, start 00:03:45.030 --> 00:03:50.389 reading it. It's the most up -to -date book there 00:03:50.389 --> 00:03:55.199 is today. I promise you that. And it's absolutely 00:03:55.199 --> 00:04:01.780 reliable. You can depend on it. You can stake 00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:07.719 your life on it. It is the very word of God. 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:12.860 And he'll keep it. All right? Deuteronomy. Somebody 00:04:12.860 --> 00:04:16.139 said, my goodness, a life... That's the Old Testament. 00:04:16.180 --> 00:04:18.899 Don't you know that we're living in a scientific 00:04:18.899 --> 00:04:23.209 age? Don't... Do you know, Ms. Kuhlman, that's 00:04:23.209 --> 00:04:28.889 all outdated, outmoded? Where have you been when 00:04:28.889 --> 00:04:30.990 we've been told that we're living in the most 00:04:30.990 --> 00:04:35.550 scientific day, when we're striving for supremacy 00:04:35.550 --> 00:04:41.250 in outer space, and you tell us to get out the 00:04:41.250 --> 00:04:45.430 Bible and turn to the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy? 00:04:46.430 --> 00:04:53.050 I'll tell you. Deuteronomy. is as up to date 00:04:53.050 --> 00:04:59.089 as our space program. I read, beginning with 00:04:59.089 --> 00:05:03.569 the 64th verse, And the Lord shall scatter thee 00:05:03.569 --> 00:05:06.829 among all people, from the one end of the earth 00:05:06.829 --> 00:05:11.189 even unto the other. And there thou shalt serve 00:05:11.189 --> 00:05:15.209 other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers 00:05:15.209 --> 00:05:19.509 have known, even wooden stone. And among these 00:05:19.509 --> 00:05:26.750 nations, Shall to thy find no ease. Neither shall 00:05:26.750 --> 00:05:30.769 the sole of thy feet have rest. The wondering 00:05:30.769 --> 00:05:34.769 Jew. You can't take issue with it. That's exactly 00:05:34.769 --> 00:05:37.350 what he's been for generations. The wondering 00:05:37.350 --> 00:05:41.389 Jew. Even as God said he would be. Thou shalt 00:05:41.389 --> 00:05:45.949 find no ease. Neither shall the sole of thy foot 00:05:45.949 --> 00:05:49.889 have rest. But the Lord shall give thee there 00:05:49.889 --> 00:05:55.089 a trembling heart and feeling of eyes and sorrow 00:05:55.089 --> 00:05:59.629 of mind. And thy life shall hang in doubt before 00:05:59.629 --> 00:06:05.750 thee. Oh, sure. Hitler tried to destroy the Jews. 00:06:05.910 --> 00:06:10.769 Did he succeed? Not on your life. And thy life 00:06:10.769 --> 00:06:14.990 shall hang in doubt before thee. And thou shalt 00:06:14.990 --> 00:06:19.790 fear day and night. and shalt have none assurance 00:06:19.790 --> 00:06:24.910 of thy life. In the morning thou shalt say, Would 00:06:24.910 --> 00:06:29.569 God it were even, and at even thou shalt say, 00:06:29.750 --> 00:06:35.730 Would God it were morning. For the fear of thine 00:06:35.730 --> 00:06:39.389 heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the 00:06:39.389 --> 00:06:45.029 sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. You 00:06:45.029 --> 00:06:48.879 know something? That was written by the Holy 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:54.439 Spirit through Moses more than 1400 years before 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:57.339 Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Consider that now. 00:06:58.740 --> 00:07:02.519 Consider something that is the most fantastic 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:06.920 thing conceivable. The words that I have just 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:12.500 given you were written by the Holy Spirit through 00:07:12.500 --> 00:07:19.000 Moses more than 14... 1 ,300 years before Jesus 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:26.379 was born in Bethlehem. It's a picture of the 00:07:26.379 --> 00:07:31.060 Jews, the wandering Jew. No country, no home, 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:35.399 no rest, no assurance of life. A trembling heart, 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:40.680 the fear of death. A picture of God's leading, 00:07:40.899 --> 00:07:49.769 God's chastisement. But never did he lift his 00:07:49.769 --> 00:07:55.370 hand. Never did he change his mind regarding 00:07:55.370 --> 00:08:02.689 the I wills, the covenant, the promise that he 00:08:02.689 --> 00:08:10.730 made to Abraham and Abraham's seed. Sure, he 00:08:10.730 --> 00:08:16.279 sent chastisement upon Israel. He had to. For 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.899 Israel had failed God in their love for him, 00:08:20.980 --> 00:08:24.779 had failed to serve him, had failed to accept 00:08:24.779 --> 00:08:28.620 his only begotten son as the true Messiah. And 00:08:28.620 --> 00:08:31.779 oh, let me pause just a minute. What a lesson 00:08:31.779 --> 00:08:35.000 is here for you and for me and for those who 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:38.620 spurn the offer of God's mercy through Jesus 00:08:38.620 --> 00:08:42.360 Christ. My friend, if you're listening to me 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:47.860 and you have spurned, Salvation. You have spurned 00:08:47.860 --> 00:08:52.639 the love of Jesus. You've turned your back on 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:58.200 that new birth experience. You've laughed. You've 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:07.419 called it old -fashioned. Beloved. What a lesson 00:09:07.419 --> 00:09:13.379 for those who spurn the offer of God's mercy 00:09:13.379 --> 00:09:20.309 through... Jesus, how much sorer punishment will 00:09:20.309 --> 00:09:24.149 be meted out to those who consistently reject 00:09:24.149 --> 00:09:28.950 his salvation, who reject the pardons of his 00:09:28.950 --> 00:09:33.970 only begotten son. No person can do it and get 00:09:33.970 --> 00:09:39.409 by with it. Sooner or later there has got to 00:09:39.409 --> 00:09:44.019 be a judgment and there will be a judgment. for 00:09:44.019 --> 00:09:47.279 that individual who spurns the mercy of God, 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:52.679 who rejects the pardon through Jesus Christ the 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:57.840 Son. It may not be today, tomorrow, 10 years, 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:04.860 20 years, but God will deal with it sooner or 00:10:04.860 --> 00:10:09.399 later, even as he dealt with the Jews as a nation. 00:10:12.140 --> 00:10:18.820 Remember, God's wrath is as perfect as His love. 00:10:19.220 --> 00:10:23.539 And one thing He will not tolerate, and that's 00:10:23.539 --> 00:10:29.519 sin. All right? Turning again to the Word of 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:33.820 God. And I want you, please, now, to open your 00:10:33.820 --> 00:10:37.320 Bible to the 37th chapter of Ezekiel. We're going 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:39.519 to begin something that is most interesting. 00:10:40.990 --> 00:10:45.529 I want you to read with me in your own Bible. 00:10:46.309 --> 00:10:49.710 Sure, I enjoy reading my Bible, but remember, 00:10:49.850 --> 00:10:56.169 your Bible. Mark it. Make it a very part of your 00:10:56.169 --> 00:11:01.669 life. Because we're going to begin this study 00:11:01.669 --> 00:11:08.690 regarding Israel's restoration as promised by 00:11:08.690 --> 00:11:16.299 God. Hath God cast away his people? It's in the 00:11:16.299 --> 00:11:20.879 form of a question. And the words which I have 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:28.279 just given you are from Ezekiel. Hath God cast 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:33.779 away his people? It is a very dark, a very dark 00:11:33.779 --> 00:11:36.700 picture in our minds. He wants to stop right 00:11:36.700 --> 00:11:41.159 there. And many people have stopped right there. 00:11:41.179 --> 00:11:45.960 there when it has come to Israel. But we still 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:50.740 have God's promise when he said to Abraham, I 00:11:50.740 --> 00:11:55.399 will establish my covenant between me and thee 00:11:55.399 --> 00:12:00.700 and thy seed after thee, an everlasting covenant. 00:12:02.100 --> 00:12:06.840 I will give unto thee, to thy seed after thee, 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:10.470 the land wherein thou art a stranger. all the 00:12:10.470 --> 00:12:16.169 land of Canaan an everlasting covenant, and it 00:12:16.169 --> 00:12:21.110 shall be an everlasting possession unto you. 00:12:22.529 --> 00:12:29.169 Egypt will never have it. Russia will never have 00:12:29.169 --> 00:12:38.889 it. Red China will never get it. Their allies 00:12:39.629 --> 00:12:44.470 will never have it as their possession. Never. 00:12:46.789 --> 00:12:52.330 This is an everlasting covenant. The land of 00:12:52.330 --> 00:12:55.669 Canaan will be an everlasting possession unto 00:12:55.669 --> 00:13:04.850 you. And I will be your God forever and ever 00:13:04.850 --> 00:13:11.559 and ever. But here comes... Ezekiel, human, he 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:17.620 asks a question. Hath God cast away his people? 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:26.940 He saw them wondering from apostasy after apostasy. 00:13:28.740 --> 00:13:34.299 Centuries, beloved, literally centuries after 00:13:34.299 --> 00:13:38.779 Ezekiel lived, the apostle Paul raised the question. 00:13:40.809 --> 00:13:45.269 And he asks the question. It's there. It's in 00:13:45.269 --> 00:13:50.029 Romans, the 11th chapter, the first verse. He 00:13:50.029 --> 00:13:55.049 asks the same question. Hath God cast away his 00:13:55.049 --> 00:13:58.190 people? And then under the guidance of the Holy 00:13:58.190 --> 00:14:00.950 Spirit, the Holy Spirit who has perfect knowledge, 00:14:01.230 --> 00:14:06.210 the Holy Spirit who knows the mind of God, answered 00:14:06.210 --> 00:14:11.860 saying, God hath not. Cast away his people, which 00:14:11.860 --> 00:14:18.379 he foreknew. Oh, isn't that something? You know, 00:14:18.460 --> 00:14:23.000 let's pause a minute. Sometimes, with God's dealing 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:26.340 in our own individual lives, sometimes you know 00:14:26.340 --> 00:14:35.100 you're his child. You love him. You know you 00:14:35.100 --> 00:14:40.200 love him. You know you've been born again. But 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:45.000 sometimes, have you looked up in the midnight 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:49.139 hour? Have you felt as though God has forsaken 00:14:49.139 --> 00:14:53.559 you? Have you felt as though God had turned a 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:57.960 deafened ear unto you? Your prayers weren't being 00:14:57.960 --> 00:15:05.539 answered? He seems so far away. Have you ever 00:15:05.539 --> 00:15:10.409 asked the question, have... God forsaken me. 00:15:10.970 --> 00:15:15.210 Be careful when you judge another and you see 00:15:15.210 --> 00:15:19.070 trials and sufferings coming into the life of 00:15:19.070 --> 00:15:22.350 one of God's children. Don't you dare judge that 00:15:22.350 --> 00:15:25.710 one and make a definite statement and say, half 00:15:25.710 --> 00:15:31.149 God forsaken that one. Has the blessing of God 00:15:31.149 --> 00:15:35.090 been lifted from that one? Is that one no longer 00:15:35.090 --> 00:15:40.360 in his care and his keeping? Generations through 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:43.059 the centuries could have turned to the Jew and 00:15:43.059 --> 00:15:51.100 said, God will never keep his covenant with the 00:15:51.100 --> 00:16:01.659 Jew, never. The Holy Spirit answered Paul's question, 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:05.559 answered the question of Ezekiel when they asked, 00:16:06.350 --> 00:16:12.850 Hath God cast away his people? And the Holy Spirit 00:16:12.850 --> 00:16:20.009 answered, God hath not cast away his people, 00:16:20.110 --> 00:16:27.090 which he foreknew. Even though they're scattered 00:16:27.090 --> 00:16:31.429 among all the nations of the world, Jehovah God 00:16:31.429 --> 00:16:38.240 hath not. forsaken his chosen people, Israel. 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:46.580 He has a future for them. A glorious future. 00:16:48.379 --> 00:16:55.419 He made a promise. He made a covenant. And he'll 00:16:55.419 --> 00:16:58.480 keep it. And as an individual, remember something. 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:01.220 This should be the most encouraging thing in 00:17:01.220 --> 00:17:03.980 the world, whether you're Jew or Gentile. Whoever 00:17:03.980 --> 00:17:07.519 you are, this should be the most encouraging 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:13.039 thing to you and to me, knowing that God will 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:18.859 keep his promise. Open the word of God. A God 00:17:18.859 --> 00:17:24.400 who cannot lie will keep it. He has promised. 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:30.619 Just this past week, I received a letter from 00:17:30.619 --> 00:17:41.750 a man. who is the only nurse, registered nurse, 00:17:42.109 --> 00:17:52.170 among the lepers in Liberia. He had written to 00:17:52.170 --> 00:17:59.289 me, asking me to pray for his health. He's in 00:17:59.289 --> 00:18:07.000 charge of over three... hundred lepers in this 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:13.220 colony of lepers. Think of it. And he wrote to 00:18:13.220 --> 00:18:18.339 me and asked me to pray that God will heal him 00:18:18.339 --> 00:18:24.279 of malaria. He said sometimes it gets so dark 00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:34.539 and sometimes I feel so alone. Then he added, 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:45.559 we have his promise. I wept when I read those 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:54.519 words. Here's a man in Liberia, Africa, who's 00:18:54.519 --> 00:19:00.740 ministering to the lepers over there. What chance 00:19:00.740 --> 00:19:05.509 does he have? For encouragement. There isn't 00:19:05.509 --> 00:19:10.150 a soul over there to encourage him. All on earth 00:19:10.150 --> 00:19:16.930 that he has for encouragement. The only hope 00:19:16.930 --> 00:19:23.690 that he has is God's promise. And he's standing 00:19:23.690 --> 00:19:30.210 on it. He believes it. He holds to it. He grasps 00:19:30.210 --> 00:19:34.789 it. He makes the promise of God a very part of 00:19:34.789 --> 00:19:42.730 his life. For he has nothing else. Oh, beloved, 00:19:42.869 --> 00:19:51.930 you and I dare, we can stand on the very promise 00:19:51.930 --> 00:19:56.930 of God for a God who cannot lie. He has not the 00:19:56.930 --> 00:19:59.589 ability to lie. It is not in his nature to lie. 00:20:00.490 --> 00:20:03.670 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words 00:20:03.670 --> 00:20:08.329 will not pass away, Jesus said. He'll keep it, 00:20:08.369 --> 00:20:14.230 whether it's to a Jew or a Gentile. Mm -hmm. 00:20:14.849 --> 00:20:20.410 Yeah. All right. Now, we're going to give you 00:20:20.410 --> 00:20:24.190 some of the promises that are found in the 36th 00:20:24.190 --> 00:20:26.839 chapter of Ezekiel. We are beginning something 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:29.380 that's most interesting. Begin, if you will, 00:20:29.420 --> 00:20:33.019 please, with the 22nd verse. That's the 36th 00:20:33.019 --> 00:20:38.099 chapter of Ezekiel. Therefore say unto the house 00:20:38.099 --> 00:20:43.079 of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, I will take 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:48.000 you from among the nations and gather you out 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:53.019 of all countries and will bring you into your 00:20:53.019 --> 00:21:01.170 own land. They have been the wandering Jew for 00:21:01.170 --> 00:21:09.589 centuries. But in our own present generation, 00:21:10.130 --> 00:21:17.690 we saw the fulfillment of that which was given 00:21:17.690 --> 00:21:25.549 centuries ago through Ezekiel. I will take you 00:21:25.549 --> 00:21:30.769 from among the nations. You will no longer be 00:21:30.769 --> 00:21:35.569 known as the wandering Jew. I will gather you 00:21:35.569 --> 00:21:41.269 out of all countries and will bring you into 00:21:41.269 --> 00:21:55.099 your own land. The very thing that God has in 00:21:55.099 --> 00:22:00.539 our own present generation. Follow me in the 00:22:00.539 --> 00:22:03.319 next Heart to Heart Talk. God bless you.