945 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 part 1 Book 79 - Part 5 of the Messianic Prophecies Part 1

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 79 PART 5 of the MESSIANIC PROPHECIES – PART 1 Psalms 68, 69, and 72 Okay, good to have everybody in again this afternoon. For those of you who have traveled a ways, and you’ve come from out of state, we just want to give you a special welcome. And for all the rest of you, you’ve been old hands. They know you all over the country. We always have to show our appreciation for you, as well. Now, for those of you out in television, again, we want to thank you for your prayers and your letters. And my, the letters keep getting better all the time. We just can’t believe how hearts are being affected by this simple ministry. And that’s what they like—the simplicity of it. And again, we just want to thank our TV audience for everything—your prayers and your financial help. After all, we do have to pay our bills, and we appreciate every dollar that comes in. All right, we’re going to finish Book 79 today—which will wind up, at least for now, my study in the Book of Psalms. I’d already been debating as to where to go from here. I asked the Lord, you know. I’m not one of those who think God’s going to tell me with an audible voice, “Well now, Les, I want you to go to….” No, I don’t go by that, but I go by the circumstances. So just about the time that I was praying the hardest, we got a note from one of our oldest supporters, one of our first listeners of channel 40 in Indianapolis. She said, “Les, you used Daniel for a cross-reference, but have you ever done it verse-by-verse?” No. So that’s it. I think, unless the Lord steps in, we’re going to do our next taping beginning with a verse-by-verse in Daniel. I’ve done it in Isaiah and Ezekiel, and I don’t know why I skipped Daniel all this time. But anyway, that’s the way the Lord works. So if the Lord tarries, that’ll be next. But for today, we’re going to finish up these four programs, hopefully, from the Messianic Psalms. Now you’ve got to remember, not all the Psalms are Messianic. And we determine their Messianicness by references to the New Testament that corroborate His Messiahship. All right, so I’m going to start, as we have quite often through this Psalms series, with I Peter chapter 1. I like to use these verses as a kick-off, because the theme remains the same. All right, back in I Peter chapter 1 we can jump in at verse 10. I Peter 1:10-11 “Of which salvation the prophets (that is the Old Testament writers) have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: (Now, again, referring back to the prophets, they were--) 11. Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ who was in them did signify, when it (the Holy Spirit) testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory which should follow.” Now, the reason I use these verses all the time, is because that is the very theme. Now come back with me for just a moment; we’re not going to stay there long. But the next Psalms that we’re going to look at is 68. The whole theme of everything, almost from the time of Abraham on up until the end of Christ’s earthly ministry and His rejection and on into the Book of Acts, was that constant theme of the sufferings of Christ and the glory that would follow. Now that was the two-fold concept of prophecy that the Old Testament prophets themselves, nor the average rabbi or priest or whatever—they could not put the whole thing together. And you know, I put it on the board, but I guess it’s been washed off since then. But I have put it up here more than once over the years. That all through the Old Testament there were two concepts as parallel as a pair of railroad tracks. The top one was the Suffering Messiah. The Suffering Messiah as Peter puts it there in his epistle. And then the glory which would follow—and I always put that as the King and His Kingdom. I’ve always asked the question over the years. Which one of those two concepts interested the Jews the most? The glory that should follow—the King and the Kingdom. Hey, they were all for that. Throw off the heavy boots of the Babylonians and the Greeks and the Medes and the Romans. Hey, what could be better? But a suffering Messiah? They couldn’t put it together, even though Isaiah 53 was plain. And here we have a verse that’s plain. They just couldn’t get it. All right, so remember as we look at these Psalms again all afternoon, that that is what’s behind all of this—the Suffering Messiah and the Glory that should follow. All right, but now I’m going to use Psalms 68 verse 1 in a way that I’ve never seen anybody else use it. So I use it with trepidation. Somebody may just blow me out of the water. But read verse 1 of Psalms 68 with me, and then I’ll show you why. Psalms 68:1 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible