866 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 2 Book 73 - Theophanies - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 73 THEOPHANIES: GOD THE SON APPEARING IN HUMAN FORM - 2 Genesis 17:1 and Various Other Scriptures I want to again remind our audience of the one and only book we’ve ever published, and yet it’s been so well received. It’s just amazing how they keep going out. We go to seminars and they go by the box full. If you are interested in that, it’s eighty-eight questions and answers taken from our program material and covers the whole gambit, and the cost is only $11. This book saves me a lot of letter writing, instead of having to answer them all. I do answer questions in long hand, and you know why? I don’t want people to think that someone like a staff member is answering my mail. We do it ourselves. And they may have a hard time reading my handwriting. We thank you so much out there in television for all your prayers and your letters of encouragement. My, as I’ve said before, mail time is the best time of the day. And then your financial help, we never ask for money, never have had to and the Lord provides, but we still have to thank you for it. And it is the same way with all of you here. All right, we’re going to keep on with our teaching this afternoon on Theophanies. If we get beyond them, we’ll go on to some of the appearances of God in the incarnate. But hopefully we can spend the afternoon on the Old Testament Theophanies. We’re going to bring you now up to Genesis chapter 12, where we have the next direct spoken appearance of God the Son. As I mentioned in the last half-hour, whenever you have God speaking or creating, or doing anything, I think I’m without danger of being in error when I say it’s always God the Son. God the Son is always the Creator. He’s always the One who speaks things and they happen. And He’s the One that always has direct contact with the human race. Now, like I said, in programs to come we’ll be dealing with the work of the Holy Spirit, but that’s something totally different. When God the Son speaks and creation happens, yes, the Holy Spirit is involved; so is the Father. But the Scripture, especially in the New Testament, gives all the credit for it to God the Son. All right, let’s come back to Genesis chapter 12 for a moment. We’ll start at verse 1. We’ve jumped several hundred years now from Adam. We’re up to Abraham at about 2,000 B.C. Genesis 12:1a “Now the LORD…” Now again the word LORD, capitalized, is Jehovah. And Jehovah is the I AM. And the I AM is God the Son. So, here we come right back full circle. We’re dealing with God the Son. Genesis 12:1 “Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee.” All right, but now the word appeared still doesn’t come up, does it? And as I said in the last program, I am a little uncomfortable if I can’t use the word appeared. Now, I’m going to bring you all the way up to Acts chapter 7, where we have Stephen giving the whole rehearsal of Israel’s history starting with Abraham. And he uses the word that I’m looking for. Acts chapter 7, starting at verse 1, I always like to give you time to look. I had a letter the other day thanking us for giving time, because I think all of our listeners must use their Bible while they listen to the program. And that’s the only way we would have it. So we do want to give you time to find these verses and see them with your own eyes, because most people just do not know how to read and see what they’re reading. They read, but they don’t see it. All right, chapter 7 verse 1, and we’ve been dealing with Stephen up in chapter 6. Acts 7:1-2 “Then said the high priest, Are these things so? (And Stephen answers.) 2. Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory (What’s the word?) appeared unto our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran.” Now the word appeared there is the Greek word optomahei, from which we get optometry. And it literally is translated—visibly seen. Stephen, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, makes it plain that the God of glory appeared visibly, physically, in a theophany. He did not take on human flesh like Christ did at Bethlehem, but He merely appeared to Abraham in human form and then went up from Abraham, as we’re going to see in one of the other accounts in a little bit. He left off and went up from Abraham. No doubt back into that invisible Godhead that we pointed out in our last program. All right, now if you’ll come back with me to Genesis chapter 12, here God appears to this pagan citizen of Ur of the Chaldees, evidently knowing that he had the ability to believe and be obedient to what He would have done. So Abram then becomes the key player from 2,000 B.C. right on up through to our present day. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible