964 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 4 Book 81 - The Son Given Dominion and a Kingdom - 4

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 81 THE SON GIVEN DOMINION AND A KINGDOM - 4 Daniel 7:9-14 Okay, good to have everybody back again. We’ve lost a few people, but I can’t say that I blame them this afternoon. It’s been a long session. But anyway, we again want to let our T.V. people know that we’re just an informal Bible study. I don’t want it to be anything but that. I don’t want to start preaching at people. We just want to teach the Book. Although I do get a little wound up, I know I do. But I still don’t want to get away from the teaching concept, so that people can see for themselves what the Book says. It doesn’t matter what some denomination says, or what I say, but what does the Word of God say. And we have to be able to rightly divide it—to separate Israel from the Body of Christ—and then it all falls in place. All right, program number four for the afternoon, and we’re in book 81. My, I just asked Iris coming up—that means how many trips have we made to Tulsa? It’s been a bunch of them. Anyway, it’s gone fast. Now let’s continue on that Kingdom concept before we go back and do a verse-by-verse with Daniel again. Let’s come back to Matthew chapter 3 and the onset of Christ’s earthly ministry, which is going to begin with John the Baptist. After all, John the Baptist was sent to be the herald of, or to announce, the King and His Kingdom to the Nation of Israel. Because all these covenant promises were made only to Israel. The Gentiles had no part of those covenants. But as we saw in the last part of the last program, Israel was to understand that even though all the covenant promises were theirs, they would still be instrumental in bringing the Gentiles to a knowledge of Israel’s God. And, of course, we’ve been seeing a little preview of that in our study of Daniel with Nebuchadnezzar. That process where he was a total pagan with no concept of the God of Gods, but as you come up through his life, he sees a little more and a little more. Until finally, I think, before he left planet Earth he was a believer in the God of Israel, or the Most High. All right, so now remember that, that all these promises of this coming King were limited to the Nation of Israel because He was to be their King. Well, what prompted the Romans to put on the cross above Christ the sign—“Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews”? What prompted it? Well, He had that much understanding, even as a pagan ruler, that that’s what Jesus had claimed to be. That He had claimed to be the King of Israel. All right, now we come into Matthew chapter 3 and we start with John the Baptist. Verse 1: Matthew 3:1-2a “In those days (That is after Jesus had grown up in Nazareth as the carpenter’s son.) came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, (down there by the Jordan River) 2. And saying, Repent ye:…” Now, it’s interesting. You know, I get chewed up one side and down the other because I maintain that repentance is not a prerequisite for salvation today. We don’t repent and then get saved. We get saved, and then we repent or change directions. I’ve got a fellow out in Indiana. He will hear this just as well as you will, and it won’t bother him a bit. He said, “Les, when they asked me if I’ve accepted Jesus as my personal Savior, I said, No, I never accepted Him as my personal Savior. I believed The Gospel of I Corinthians 15:1-4. The moment I believed The Gospel, He became my personal Savior.” Hey, I like that. Or the other one that they always use. Take Jesus into your heart. No, that’s not The Gospel. It’s not in this Book. What’s in this Book is that if you believe that Jesus died, shed His blood, was buried and rose from the dead, thou shalt be saved. You believe that and what’s the first thing you do? You change your mind about things. You repent. And what does God do? He comes into your life. The Holy Spirit comes in. So don’t get that cart out there in front of the horse like most of Christendom does. Leave it where it belongs. Salvation comes first. But for Israel—yes, repentance was a prerequisite. And that’s what we’ve got to understand – the change in program, All right, so that’s what made me think of it. Matthew 3:1-2a “In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, 2. And saying, Repent…” Now for Israel, you see, that was a logical word—because did Israel know right from wrong? Of course they did. They had the Book. They had the Old Testament ever since day one. They knew. And if they didn’t, it was their own fault. They had to look at their own situation as a Nation as well as individuals and change their mind about these things in order for God to bless them with the King and the Kingdom. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible