706 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 59 - Winking at Evil? Wake Up! - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 59 WINKING AT EVIL? WAKE UP! - PART 2 REVELATION 2:11 – 3:22 There’s not a reference to salvation by faith alone. For these Jewish believers it’s all works as we saw in the last program. Revelation 2:18 "And unto the angel (or the minister or the leader) of the church (assembly) in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who has eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;" Now again, as we pointed out in one of the programs last taping, what do those terminologies refer to? Love? Mercy? Grace? Judgment! Israel experienced it in her past history. To warn Israel that if they did not turn from their wicked ways judgment was coming. Well, not the flood, not the Tribulation back then, but invading armies. Yes, it happened because Israel refused to listen. We’re talking about somewhere between 55 and 60 AD during which time Paul is also writing his letters to the Gentile churches, but Peter, James, and John are still dealing with the Jewish element, and oh, if people could only see that. We come out of the Old Testament to Christ’s earthly ministry and it’s all Jewish. You can turn with me, if you will, to Romans 15 verse 8, and this is for people who do not understand that Christ’s earthly ministry was only to the nation of Israel. Got Romans 15 verse 8? Romans 15:8a "Now I say, (now this is Paul writing to Gentiles) that Jesus Christ was a minister of (the whole world? Of Gentiles? the circumcision…" "…for the truth of God to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:" Well, come back to my timeline, all the way back to Abraham. Promises and prophecy. Promises and prophecy. Now, back to the timeline. So anyway, He comes out of the Old Testament economy; He begins His earthly ministry, strictly to the nation of Israel, but the Romans and the Jews brought about the crucifixion. All right, now then, if you’ll follow my timeline, Peter, James, and John continue to minister to these Jews who had become believers first in Christ’s earthly ministry. All right, now a verse just comes to mind. Let’s go back to Matthew chapter 24, verse 13, and I’ve stressed it when we teach these verses in Matthew 24 that this is all Tribulation ground. If you have a red-lettered edition, it’s red. All right, so He starts unfolding everything that pertains to these seven years of Tribulation, or the wrath and vexation. All right, the only verse I want you to look at right now is verse 13. And this is what Peter, James, and John are admonishing these Jewish believers to look at. Now, He wasn’t talking about their eternal salvation. They weren’t talking about their spiritual salvation; He was talking about the physical. Now, of course, we understand that from our vantage point, God stopped this whole shebang right here shortly before the Tribulation came in and instead of bringing in wrath, He opens up the timeline with the grace of God, or what we call the out-calling of the Body of Christ, which puts all this out into the future. There’s nothing in these letters, there’s nothing in the book of Revelation to indicate that the timeline is going to be interrupted. All right, so back to Revelation chapter 2 and verse 18. He’s speaking of judgment. Brass always throughout the Old Testament spoke of judgment. Works. A Jezebel! Now, I usually like to just tantalize people’s thinking. Does any sane woman name her daughter Jezebel? All right, now that was back in the Old Testament, but here to point out the Jewishness of it all, the Lord refers to this woman who was doing the same thing within this Jewish believing community – another Jezebel. "Notwithstanding (in spite of all their works) I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest (permit) that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess,…" Women. It was those goddesses that hooked the masses of people. to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto idols." Huh-uh. "And I gave her space (or I gave her time) to repent of her fornication; (her immorality) and she repented not." Now, let’s compare the two Jezebel’s for just a moment. If you know anything about Jezebel, the queen wife of King Ahab, what was her end? All right, Matthew 24 verse 21, and remember this is from the lips of the Lord Jesus Himself. The Holocaust; Hitler’s death ovens. I’m surprised God hasn’t already moved. Well, if Billy Graham thought it was that bad in the 80’s, then what in the world must God think today. All right, so these judgments are coming and God’s wrath is suddenly going to be released. So again, here is the judgment that’s going to befall this unbelieving, immoral segment of even the Jewish people. God would still forgive. God’s grace was ready to bring her back, if she would repent. But she would not, and if she would not, God says: #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible