946 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 79 - Part 5 of the Messianic Prophecies Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 79 PART 5 of the MESSIANIC PROPHECIES – PART 2 Psalms 68, 69, and 72 Okay, good to see everybody back from your break. For those of you joining us on television, if this is your first experience, we’re just a simple verse-by-verse Bible study. I’m not a pastor. Please don’t write and say Reverend so and so. I’m just a layman. I always say I’m just a glorified Sunday school teacher, if anything. We’re just lay people, and we’re cattle ranchers; and you’ll see we refer to that from time-to-time. But the Lord has given us this ministry, and we just praise Him for it. All right, for those of you in the studio, you’re already where we left off in our last program. For those of you out in television, we’re going to continue on in Psalms 68 and finish our book number 79—which is all in Psalms, if I remember right. Then we’ll move on probably to the Book of Daniel in our next taping. But for today, Psalms 68 and we’re going to continue on from where we left off. But I’m going to back up a verse or two, because we kind of ran out of time in the last lesson. Remember we’re talking about the Kingdom that’s coming over which Jesus the Messiah will one day rule and reign. Hills and so forth and mountains in the Old Testament usually refer to earthly kingdoms. Psalms 68:15a “The hill of God (In other words, this kingdom that’s coming.) is as the hill of Bashan;…” Now I have to stop and explain that a little bit. Bashan is the mountainous area just east of Galilee and the Jordan River through which the River Jabbok flowed. If you remember the story of Jacob, it is quite mountainous. Not like the Tetons in Wyoming, of course, nor like our Rocky Mountains—but nevertheless, for the Middle East they’re pretty good sized mountains. All right, so the analogy here is that this kingdom that’s coming will be as much higher than the normal kingdoms of the world as the mountains of Bashan are above the other hills and mountains of the Middle East. In other words, it’s going to be so glorious and so complete in its control of the planet. Now verse 16: Psalms 68:16 “Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill that God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.” In other words, this Kingdom is going to go right on into eternity. Now let’s drop down to verse 18. This is where we get the connection that this is a Messianic Psalm, in that it is tied also to a New Testament reference—in this case from the Apostle Paul. And that is in verse 18. Psalms 68:18 “Thou (speaking of the King) hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.” Now let’s just go chase that down in Ephesians chapter 4. This is exactly what Paul is quoting from. Now for the skeptics and the scornful, they probably say, well, he just went back and found that. No. That’s not the way the Scriptures came together. The Scriptures came together as the Holy Spirit inspired these writers to write. They did not go back and try to find another Scripture that would fit where they’re writing. This is just one of the supernatural aspects of our Bible. That even the Apostle Paul by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit refers to this verse in the Book of Psalms. Ephesians 4:8-9 “Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, (In other words, from His post-resurrection and His 40 days with the Eleven from the Book of Acts, we got the account of how He ascended back up into Glory.) he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 9. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?” You see, now this wasn’t in the Book of Psalms. Here we have an extension of what the Psalmist does not tell us. He not only ascended, but He first descended. And I think we’d better take the time to explain what Paul is talking about. Ephesians 4:9-10 “(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10. He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all the heavens, that he might fill(or fulfill) all things.)” Now, the only way I can explain that is by the use of the Scripture itself. Come back with me, if you will, to Matthew chapter 12 verse 38. Now what we’re talking about is where did He descend to, and what did He take from where He descended? We’re going to chase this down from Scripture. Matthew 12:38 “Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.” Now you remember the Scripture tells us the Jews always required a sign. (I Corinthians 1:22) So this is typical Jewishness of these people. Show us a sign. Verse 39: #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible