845 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 1 Book 71 - Showing a break in OT prophecy timeline 1

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 71 SHOWING A BREAK IN THE O.T. PROPHECY TIME LINE Joel 2:28-29 Okay, it’s good to see everybody in again this afternoon. We always appreciate the fact that you folks come in and spend the afternoon with us. For those of you out in television, again we just want to invite you to a simple, informal Bible study. I don’t want to make it too complicated. I keep telling my phone callers, keep it simple. My, everybody wants to complicate everything, and God didn’t intend it for that. He wants it kept simple. That’s how we hope to teach, and yet bring out things that the vast majority of Christendom totally ignores. We always appreciate that everybody in the studio has their own Bible and pen and notebook. That’s the way to study. The same way for you out there in television, open your Bible and sit down with your cup of coffee and study with us. All right, now last taping, the previous four programs, we started in the little minor prophet of Joel. In my introductory remarks, remember, I told you that Joel is the oldest written prophecy that speaks of “the day of the LORD.” Now of course, it’s back in Psalms in more latent language, and we’re going to probably look at that a little later today, but to actually come right out and speak about “the day of the LORD,” Joel is the first of our Old Testament prophets to use the term. Now remember, even though Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel come first in our Bibles, Joel was written before any of them. So, when I say that Joel is the first, I mean chronologically. All right, now as we move away from chapter 2, where we spent our last four programs, where it spoke of “the day of the LORD” and the judgment that is facing the Nation of Israel and the world in general, we come into another break in the timeline, which of course is going to fit what we have on the board. That is in chapter 2 verse 27 as an introduction. Joel 2:27A “And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,…” Now remember, God is talking through the prophet to the Nation of Israel. This is all Jewish. Joel 2:28-29 “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29. And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.” Now, let’s keep right on going for a little bit -verse 30. Joel 2:30-31 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible (What?) day of the LORD come.” So, these are all descriptions of, again, that final seven years. Which, as we saw in the last four programs, are “the day of the LORD” – what we call the Tribulation. It will be followed by the return of Christ, who will finally fulfill all of the promises made to Israel, you might say since Abraham, and bring in the Kingdom. Now, remember when we were studying Isaiah, and I kept repeating and repeating, because that’s what my listening audience asks me to do. We showed that there were three distinct judgments facing the Nation of Israel, and they all sound as though it’s next week or next month. But you see, to God time means nothing. Five minutes is ten thousand years, so far as God is concerned, or the other way around. So, back in Isaiah, who wrote about 700 B.C., he was speaking of all three of these great invasions and destructions of the city of Jerusalem. The first one was the Babylonian invasion, which was going to come in about 100 years. But he makes it sound as though it’s going to be next month. Then the second one he talked about was the invasion of the Romans in A.D. 70. Again, it sounds as though it’ll be in a year or two. Then Isaiah comes to that “day of the LORD,” the final seven years, which would come in future from our point in time. Now, all three of those were prophesied by the prophets, but Joel only speaks of the one, and that’s the Tribulation, “the day of the LORD.” All right, now we’re going to come back up and pick this apart before we move on through Scripture. In verses 28 and 29 we have a complete description of the day of Pentecost. That’s what happened at Pentecost when God poured out His Spirit upon all flesh. Now, you want to remember, he’s talking in terms of Jews and Israel. So the “all flesh” isn’t talking about the pagan world, it’s talking about Israel. And you remember that when we look at Acts chapter 2, it’s nothing but all Israel -- “Ye men of Israel.” So, the “all flesh” is Israel. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible