914 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 2 Book 77 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture - Part 38

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 77 CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – PART 38 Genesis – Revelation (The Tribulation) Glad to have you joining us out in your living rooms or wherever. We’re going to continue right on where we left off in the last half hour. In fact, all four programs this afternoon will probably just run together. I’m not going to try and end in a particular place. And if we end up in the middle of a verse at the end of the program, we’ll just pick it up in the next half hour. So be aware of that this afternoon as we continue to connect the dots of Scripture. All right, we’re talking about the next great event on God’s calendar after the Rapture of the Church, which will be the seven years of Tribulation—the vexation and wrath of God predominately on the Nation of Israel, as we showed in the first half hour. But I decided to stop for a second and establish again from Paul’s writings why I so adamantly stand on the fact that we as the Body of Christ will not go into the Tribulation. We will not find out who the anti-Christ is, because that will not be revealed until after we’re gone. And of course, the primary Scripture for that is II Thessalonians chapter 2. I think most of you in the studio have already found the Scripture. For those of you out in television, join us if you will. II Thessalonians chapter 2 and we’re going to start right at verse 1. And remember, we’re going to establish why I teach that this will take place before the anti-Christ is revealed. Now verse 1: II Thessalonians 2:1a “Now we beseech you, brethren,…” So, Paul is talking to his Gentile believers. Now, you know, it’s amazing what these anti-Paul people can dream up. Somebody had given this guy one of my tapes delineating Paul’s apostleship. And he came back with a series of questions that the guy should send me. And I mean it’s just unbelievable. Well, one of the tenets that I held to in that particular tape was that Paul alone was the foundation, or the founder, of the Body of Christ according to I Corinthians chapter 3 where he says, “I am the master builder. I have laid the foundation which is Jesus Christ crucified.” This guy comes back and asks, was that only applied to the congregation at Corinth? Was he was the Master-builder of the church at Corinth? Now, I haven’t answered it yet. I may not. I don’t know. But listen, if that be the case, then when he wrote to the Romans that we are “joint-heirs with Christ,” then that would mean just the Church of Rome. When Paul writes to the Galatians that “you’re not under law, you’re under grace,” oh, that was just for the Galatians, that’s not for us. See how ridiculous their arguments get? It just is nonsensical what they’ll dream up—anything to refute what Paul has said. But here again, Paul is beseeching these Gentile believers in the ancient time in what we call Thessalonica. II Thessalonians 2:1 “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,” Now, all you have to do is have a sixth grade mentality and look at that. Does that say, I’m coming to the Mount of Olives? No. He’s going to gather us to Himself in the air as he had explained in I Thessalonians chapter 4. So there’s no way that you can put this in line with the Second Coming when He comes and stands on the Mount of Olives after all the horrors are over. Evidently there were people who were trying to upset Paul’s teaching and his Gentile believers. They had come in and told these Thessalonian believers that they were already in the Tribulation, and that there was no such thing as the Rapture taking place until after the Tribulation and so forth. This is why Paul is saying what he’s saying. Now verse 2: II Thessalonians 2:2a “That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, (Mentally. Don’t get all upset by what these false teachers are telling you.) neither by spirit, nor by word,…” In other words, don’t let these guys come in and fast-talk you into thinking that you’ve missed something, and that you’re out in left field. No. II Thessalonians 2:2b “…nor by a letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.” What does that imply? They were actually forging letters and sending them into his churches and signing Paul’s name to it. I mean, the devil will stop at nothing. That’s what they were doing. And the Thessalonians…now you’ve got to always remember. What kind of people were Paul’s converts? Well, they’d just come out of paganism. They knew nothing of the Old Testament. They knew nothing of Israel’s Law and Israel’s God. They were just simply brought out by believing in the death, burial, and resurrection of this Jesus of Nazareth. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible