753 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 1 Book 63 - The Palestinian Covenant

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 63 THE PALESTINIAN COVENANT We’re going to continue this afternoon with the covenants that God has made, predominately between Himself and the Nation of Israel, and that’s why we refer to Israel over and over as His covenant people. The number one sign of the times is Israel back in the land. Because God is in it! You ask the average Israeli, "Is God doing all this?" It was a covenant promise. Then, of course, the next one was a covenant that God made with Adam, the Adamic Covenant. All right, we’re going to come back and spend more time on the Abrahamic Covenant. Nevertheless, that was the onset then of the Nation of Israel and all the covenant promises that would follow in the steps of the Abrahamic Covenant. Now, after Abraham has established the Nation of Israel, and Israel is going to become a special set aside vehicle through which God can work amongst all the nations of the world, we come to the Mosaic Covenant, which was Law. All right, now that brings us up to the next great Covenant promise, and that has to do with the Promised Land. Within the geographical area of Palestine, we have the Promised Land, the Nation of Israel. Now, in order to verify that Israel’s taking over of the land of Canaan was by God’s design, let us turn to Deuteronomy 29. A covenant in Scripture is that which originated in God, even though it’s on behalf, in this case, of the Nation of Israel, yet it stops with God. In other words, even though Israel may break these covenant promises, God does not break the covenant Himself. We’re going to see that, especially when we get to the New Covenant where they refer to the Old Covenant, "which Israel broke," but God didn’t. So, always remember that these covenant promises are unbreakable, until God decides to end it of His own volition. Deuteronomy 29:1 "These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, (this covenant is) beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb." They’ve been working and promoting it and getting it ready for Israel for 430 years, remember, and now this becomes the covenant of the land that God is going to promise to Israel. Deuteronomy 29:2-3 "And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3. Deuteronomy 29:7-8 covenant,…" This agreement that God is going to give the Nation of Israel the homeland for them to enjoy as their own land. All right, now verse 12. Deuteronomy 29:12-13 "That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: 13. "Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision (the Nation of Israel) for the truth of God, (But for what purpose?) All right, who were the "fathers?" What were the promises? That God Himself would take the nation into their own Promised Land and after a period of time, they didn’t know how long, but after a period of time He would come in the person of God the Son, the Messiah of Israel, and rule and reign from Jerusalem. Deuteronomy 30:1 After being scattered, they are now brought back into their Promised Land, verse 2: Deuteronomy 30:2 Deuteronomy 30:3 "That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hathscattered thee." All right, verse 4, I think this is even interesting. Deuteronomy 30:4 Over and over and over, God is talking about this covenant by which Israel will have her homeland. Deuteronomy 30:5 "And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, (That is, back under the time of Joshua, especially, and then going on through the times of the judges.) All right, so "the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land." God, by covenant design, has set aside that piece of real estate between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River and a little beyond for His chosen people. Ezekiel 34:11 Israel! The Jew is the sheep of Scripture and their Messiah, God the Son, is their Shepherd. Ezekiel 34:12-13a (Now verse 13, and listen, these are the promises of God.) That flies into the face of God’s promises. They have no right to give one square foot to anybody but the Nation of Israel. It’s covenanted. It’s theirs by God’s design. Ezekiel 34:13b "…and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel…" "…mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. Ezekiel 34:16a Oh, the Nation of Israel tonight, for the most part, is lost in unbelief. All right, read verse 16, and then our time’s going to be gone. Ezekiel 34:17-20 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible