761 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 1 Book 64 - But God! - Part 1

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 64 BUT GOD! - PART 1 That covenant said, in so many words, that God was going to make of that one man, Abram, a new nation, a group of people. Not just for Israel, but for all. All right, so now we come to Paul’s reference to the Abrahamic Covenant, which is of course primarily to the Nation of Israel. "I say then, Hath God cast away his people? (Has He given up on the Nation of Israel? God forbid." For years I called them Amillennialists, and they believe that in 70 AD the Nation of Israel disappeared. I have what some people call a bad habit. What’s usually on the back page now of your news magazine? Boy, what a time saver! Well, if that’s the case, then three-fourths of this Book can just as well be torn out and thrown away, because it all promises that God will never give up on the Nation of Israel. And Paul confirms it right here in chapter 11. "God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew." Because God’s Word is true. As we’ve been showing over the last several programs, especially in the covenant promises, God has promised that the sun will fall out of its position before Israel will disappear as a nation. Yet these people just totally ignore all that. Romans 11:1-2a "I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. All right and Paul is living proof. 2. God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew." God will never let the Nation of Israel disappear, because in His foreknowledge He has them ready for the end-time return of Christ to set up His Kingdom. Romans 11:3-4 4. But what saith the answer of God unto him? Romans 11:5 Isaiah 1:9 Destroyed the Nation. A little tiny remnant. All right, now come down to verse 7, still in Romans 11. Romans 11:7a What was the Nation of Israel constantly looking and hoping for? That little, small flock of believers who Paul refers to here as "the remnant." But what happened to the vast majority of Israel? Blinded! Blinded! All right, but that’s not where I wanted to spend my time. All right, let’s come all the way down then to verse 11 of Romans chapter 11. Romans 11:11a "I say then, Have they (the Nation of Israel) stumbled that they should fall?" Never! The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! There isn’t enough force in this whole world to oppose the God of Abraham. Yes, they stumbled when they rejected the Messiah, but they didn’t fall out of God’s program for the future. Romans 11:11b "…God forbid: but rather through their fall (Through their unbelief, rejecting the Messiah, crucifying Him, and bringing about the resurrection and all that pertains to our Gospel - it was all because of Israel’s unbelief. So…) salvation is come to the Gentiles, for to provoke them (the Nation of Israel) to jealousy." To think, that the God of Abraham is now turning to the Gentile world. How can this be true if the Jew disappeared 1900 years ago? Romans 11:12a "Now if the fall of them (Israel’s rejecting their Messiah.) If all of this is accomplished, what we’ve seen it accomplish, then: Romans 11:12b fullness?" What’s that? Okay, now verse 13, Paul reminds us that he’s merely giving us all these facts concerning the Nation of Israel. Romans 11:13 "For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles," And oh, people don’t want to swallow that. Paul? Romans 11:13b-14 All right, now here we come back to Israel again. Romans 11:15 All right, now I’m going to come down to verse 17. Romans 11:17a Remember, he’s talking to us Gentiles being grafted in. Romans 11:17b Jews! This Book was written by Jews. You and I are feasting on what God accomplished through the Jewish people. Romans 11:18 Israel’s still going to rest on those same roots and the tree that began with the Abrahamic Covenant. All right, now we’ll come down to verse 19. Again, Paul is talking to you and I as Gentiles. Romans 11:19 "Thou (as a Gentile) wilt say then, The branches were broken off, (That is, the Nation of Israel was taken out of the place of blessing.) Now, what’s the danger? We’ve been blessed to partake of these covenant promises, even though they’ve been set aside because of their unbelief. Romans 11:20 All right, so now he’s reminding us. Romans 11:21a "For if God spared not the natural branches,…" If He judged Israel because of their unbelief, do you think He’s going to shrink from judging the Gentile world because of their unbelief? Multiple! Here we come back to Israel again because of their unbelief. Almost a million Jews lost their life in that Roman invasion. The rest were scattered into the nations of the world because of God’s wrath against them and their unbelief. But hey, is the Gentile world going to miss it? Now verse 23: "And they also, (that is Israel) if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in (And what’s the word?) #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible