{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Collierville First Baptist Church","title":"CFBC Wed Study | 10-25-23 | Israel, Prophecy and the Middle East | Session 2","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3645,"description":"Dr. Chuck Herring | Ezekiel 36:16-38Why is there so much antisemitism in the world?   Zechariah 12:1–3… The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel. Thus declares the Lord who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him, 2 “Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah. 3 “It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.  After discussing Israel’s sinful past (vv. 16–21), Ezekiel laid out the nation’s future restoration.1  I want you to see that his presentation is divided into three parts (verses 22,33,37) and each of them is introduced with these words—“Thus says the Lord God.”  This passage unfolds the process and the benefits of the restoration of Israel as a nation. However, one thought dominates this portion of prophetic Scripture—God’s primary motivation is to vindicate His holy name before the watching nations.  God refuses to allow the nations to interpret the desolation of Israel’s land and the dispersion of the Jewish people as any type of reflection on His inability to execute His sovereignty and to accomplish His ultimate purposes for His chosen people. God is speaking to a people he has blessed in remarkable ways, yet a people who have spurned him.  He accuses them of defiling the land (Ezek. 36:17). This they did by their conduct and their action of ignoring God.2 Ezekiel 36:16–21… Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, 17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. 18 “Therefore I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AZsyihvbj5bH--pG91DBLNR6G2La91zZuxAz55RsERc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMyNjkzLzE2NTg3/NjU1MzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}