982 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 82 - The Resurrection of the Just - 2

Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 82 THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST - 2 Daniel 12:13 Okay, it’s good to see everybody in again. You’ve had your coffee break. For those of you joining us in television, we are, again, just a simple Bible study. I’ve announced it over and over, but I realize every day we have new listeners, and we’ve got to keep it qualified that I’m not associated with any group. I do not hold to any one denomination. We’re just going to keep searching the Scriptures to see what it says. And again, for those of you who are so supportive with your prayers and your letters, I just have to say thank you. And we know the Lord is using it. We’re getting such a tremendous response from so many who are coming out of the darkness of lostness and into the glorious life that is fit for eternity. All right, we’re on the whole concept of the resurrections in this taping. We started our study of the resurrections in our last taping in the Book of Daniel. In our last program, we were talking about the resurrection of the firstfruits. Now we’re going to go to the next part of the order of the resurrection—to the main harvest of the field. Now, I’ve got the square up here. If Israel was dealing with a little square field of barley, they went in first in the spring and took out those early ripening stems of grain. Then they would come and take the whole crop, but they had to leave the corners and the gleanings. We’re going to look at the main harvest in this half hour. Then, hopefully, before the afternoon is over, we’ll come to Daniel once again and pick up the corners and the gleanings. This is the way I look at the resurrections: three of them, and yet they all comprise what Revelation will call the first resurrection. All right, I Corinthians chapter 15 is the great resurrection chapter. We’re going to, for sake of time, come in at verse 20. I Corinthians 15:20 “But now (on this side of Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection) is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them who have died.” That’s what we covered in our last program. Then in order to make more than just the one stem, in order to have enough for the bundle according to Leviticus, there were those Jewish believers who came out of the graves after His resurrection there at Jerusalem. I Corinthians 15:21 “For since by man (Adam) came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.” All right, now we’d better qualify that with Scripture, hadn’t we? Back up, if you will, to Romans chapter 5 where we get the correlation. Adam was the first man that plunged the human race into sin and under the curse, but the second man is Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who opened up salvation to the whole human race. Romans 5:12 “Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; (So, sin and death almost become like Siamese twins. They are both horror to the human race, sin and death.) and so death (because of sin) passed upon all men, (none excepted) for that all have sinned.” All right, now if you’ll keep that in mind as we jump back up to I Corinthians 15, once more, back to verse 22 now. I Corinthians 15:22 “For as in Adam all die, (spiritually) even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” Now, I have to stop there a minute, because we have a—what should I call it—a teaching. I don’t like to call it a doctrine, per se. But beginning with one of the early church fathers, he dreamed up what today we call Universalism. Now, I imagine the rank and file of church people don’t even know what universalism is. But I think I’m qualified from time-to-time. Universalism is the concept that when Christ died and paid the sin debt for the whole human race; which, of course, we agree with. But they go on to say that after these last people have spent a certain amount of time in the Lake of Fire, they’ve paid their dues, then they’ll come out and still get to Glory. That’s the teaching of Universalists. Even Satan will one day be in Heaven. It’s amazing, you know, how people can corrupt the Scriptures. But this all goes back to those early church fathers that are held in such high esteem. Well, I used to, but I don’t anymore. But, that is not what this verse means. See, they take a verse like this and twist it to mean that sooner or later everybody will get into God’s Heaven, see, because – now read it again, so that you see where they’re coming from. I Corinthians 15:22 “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” But the key there is the prepositional phrase “in Christ.” Lost people aren’t “in Christ!” #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible