888 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 4 Book 74 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture - Part 12

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 74 CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – PART 12 Genesis through Revelation Okay, good to see everybody back. And for those of you joining us on television, we want to welcome you to a simple Bible study. I want to keep it simple. I shared again with somebody the other day, keep it simple. My, so many people get all wrapped up in things that nobody can figure out. But it’s not that difficult if you just keep it simple. So, we’re just glad to have you on board. We trust you will study and learn to use the Scriptures so that you can study on your own. Okay, my little wife is the one that keeps things moving, and she says we haven’t shown people our book again for a long time. It’s eighty-eight questions with answers taken from our television material, and it’s been so well received. We like to keep promoting it, because it’s probably one-of-a-kind and about the best $11 you can spend. My, they make such wonderful gifts. Okay, now we’re going to continue on with where we left off in the previous program, how we are connecting the dots through Scripture. We’ve moved from the call of Abraham and the appearance of the Nation of Israel; all leading up to the promises of a coming King and Kingdom. Jesus came in fulfillment of all that. Now, it was a legitimate offer. I always compare it to when Israel went up to the Promised Land under Moses. What did God tell them? Go in and take it. It’s yours for the taking. You won’t lose one drop of blood because I’m going to drive the Canaanites out. But, did they believe it? No, they didn’t believe it. They had all kinds of excuses. The cities were well-fenced and the men were giants and, oh, they just whimpered all night. So God sent them back out into the desert. All right, now you have much the same thing at His first advent. All the things were in place. It was a valid offer. Yes, hypothetically, they could have had it. But God knew they wouldn’t. So, the work of the cross was consummated because of Israel’s unbelief. In their unbelief, they demanded His death. But, you see, it was all so supernatural. As we’ve seen even today, Israel stoned the prophets. Paul recognized that he was part of putting those followers of Jesus to death. And Rome didn’t raise a fuss about that. But the leaders of Israel were prompted, providentially, to bring Rome into the crucifixion, because He had to be lifted up. He couldn’t be killed by stoning. He had to be crucified. So that brought the Romans into the picture. That brought about, of course, the crucifixion and burial and His resurrection. All right, now we’re going to move over into His post-resurrection after the 40 days in the resurrected body. We’ll move into Acts chapter 1. We are just trying to show how all of this unfolded according to God’s timetable. But you have to understand the timetable to really understand where we are with regard to our doctrine. What do we believe? All right, Acts chapter 1, now it’s still Jewish. Nothing pertaining to Gentiles as yet. Saul of Tarsus hasn’t been saved as yet. All right, verse 2. Acts 1:2-3a “Until the day in which he was taken up, (that is His ascension) after that he through the Holy Spirit had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: (That is the Eleven that are left. Judas is gone.) 3. To whom also (to the Twelve, now Eleven) he showed himself alive after his passion…” That is His death, burial, and resurrection. Now, you know, there have been people down through the ages who tried to prove that the resurrection of Christ was a hoax. But they invariably come away from it as believers, because there was so much proof of His resurrection. Acts 1:3b “…by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days,…” Forty days He spent with them in the resurrected body. And it’s that forty day period with Christ that we get a hint on our eternal body. It’s going to be a body fashioned after His resurrected body. So, that’s the reason for these forty days. You pick them up in the closing chapters of the gospels. Acts 1:3c “…being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” Now fortunately, here about a year or two ago, we spent a whole series of programs distinguishing the difference between the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Body of Christ. If you remember, the Kingdom of God is that overall sphere of God’s righteous influence and control: Heaven, the angels, all the Old Testament believers, all the New Testament believers. Everything pertaining to God’s righteousness can be included in that overall circle The Kingdom of God. But in the Kingdom of God is that future Kingdom of Heaven which is coming on the earth. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible