494 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 2 Book 42 - Les and Iris Story - Salvation - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 42 Les & Iris’ Story – Salvation – Time-Line - Part 2 In the bottom line, where you and I are today, we’ve opened up a parenthetical part of it called the Age of Grace, or Paul’s apostleship, or the Church Age, the Body of Christ, that is not on the top timeline. We find that the Nation of Israel and the Jews all started in Genesis chapter 12. (back in chapter 11.) The rest of your Old Testament from Genesis chapter 12 and the call of Abraham, all the way up until the beginning of the New Testament, is another 2000 years, and all the Old Testament is pointing to that period in time. So remember the first 11 chapters covers 2000 years, and the rest of the Old Testament, the next 2000. Genesis 12:1 "Now the LORD had said unto Abraham, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:" "…Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor; and they served other gods." Terah, the father of Abraham, was an idolater. 1. The promise of a nation of people. 2. God would put them in a geographic area of land. 3. And then at a future day He will come Himself as the Messiah, the King, and rule the Nation of Israel over an earthly kingdom. Genesis 12:2-3 "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: (now here comes the crowning part of the covenant made with this man Abraham.) The land of Canaan is deeded to Abraham as a homeland for this new nation of people. So at 2000 BC with the call of Abraham, we have the beginning of the Nation of Israel. Those Gentiles weren’t to have anything to do with the promises of Israel, but God made an exception, and sent him anyway. So all the way up through the Old Testament and the call of Abraham to the coming of Christ, it’s Jew only, with these occasional exceptions. Matthew 3:1,2 The King! This covenant nation would one day have their King. I call Psalms chapter 2 the outline of this Old Testament program based on this Abrahamic Covenant. Everything has come as a result of that covenant that God made with Abraham. Now in Psalms chapter 2, we get a timeline all its own, and that’s what this top line is. Psalm 2:1-2.a "Why do the heathen rage, (the non-Jew world) and the people (Israel) imagine a vain thing? Now, at the time of Christ’s arrest, who was involved? Well the Romans and the religious leaders of Israel together. Israel, the Jew. You can’t say the Jews killed the Christ. Psalms 2:3-4 In verse 4 what was God’s reaction?) Psalms 2:5 The coming of the King. In spite of everything man has done, they can’t upset God’s program. Psalm 2:6 My, it’s just comes up out of the Old Testament prophecies. I don’t care whether it was Isaiah, Daniel, or Joel, this top line was their timeline. Now turn to Acts chapter 2. So look what Peter writes beginning with verse 15. Now Peter is quoting from Joel, but he doesn’t stop with verse 18. Had Peter understood that this Old Testament program was no longer valid, he should have stopped right there, like Jesus did in Luke chapter 4. But remember Peter doesn’t have the foreknowledge that Jesus had. So Peter, relying on the Old Testament prophecies, just keeps right on quoting Joel, and look what happens next. God intervened in Grace, and He just literally opened up the Old Testament program and He interjected parenthetically the Church Age, the Body of Christ. You won’t find anything of the Church back in the Old Testament, or on this top timeline, because that was all centered on Israel. But when Israel, even after the crucifixion, continued to reject the King and Kingdom, God shoved that final 7 years clear out into the future. Paul says, "Oh God forbid."God has simply given us 1900 + years of Grace whereby Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles, is now the spokesman. Then Christ will return and yet be the King and head up the Kingdom. As soon as they start funneling these things from the top line of Israel and the Law into the bottom line where the Body of Christ is, you’ll have nothing but confusion. know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. 37. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, (Jews to Jews) what shall we (the Nation of Israel) do?" What should Israel do? Now verse 38 was appropriate for Israel, because it’s exactly what John the Baptist taught the nation to do. Acts 2:38 Romans 1:16 Romans 3:24-26 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible