56 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 4 - Book 5 - Law & Grace - Timeline - Isaac

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 5 Law and Grace: Time Line: Isaac Isaac: Genesis 24 In our last lesson we studied how that the Old Testament, and even Jesus’ teaching in the Gospel during His ministry on earth, gave no indication of what we have come to refer to as the "Age of Grace." Peter and the eleven, when they were sent out prior to the Crucifixion to preach, never preached Christ crucified! We have to realize that they did not preach Christ crucified, buried and risen from the dead. The "until" there referred to the time when God would send Christ back to be The King of Kings. Acts 1:6 "When they therefore were come together (the eleven and Jesus), they asked of him, saying, ‘Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?’" Those eleven men were remembering David and Solomon’s glory, and they were wondering whether Israel at that time would have a kingdom like unto Solomon’s. Turn to Matthew 19:27. Matthew 19:27 "Then answered Peter and said unto him, ‘Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?’" Now look at Jesus’ answer in verse 28: Matthew 19:28 "And Jesus said unto them, ‘Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.’" So what He was saying, was that when the time comes that the curse is lifted and the Kingdom set up; when the earth is restored to the condition it was in at the time of the Garden of Eden, prior to man’s fall; then Christ will sit on an earthly throne and rule His kingdom in glory. How did Jesus answer him? We need to get a time frame in here. A heavy persecution was going on against the assembly of called-out, believing Jews who believed that Jesus was the true Messiah. All the other Jews had been scattered because of the persecution, but those twelve men stayed in Jerusalem. The ones "...which were scattered...." refer to the ones we’ve already talked about in Acts 8:1. Notice that they preached the Word only "to the Jews." The Word is so plain. Because the Old Testament program was the only plan they knew. Saul of Tarsus (Paul) was converted on the road to Damascus, where he was headed in his religious zeal to persecute the church – to stamp out the followers of the "imposter" Jesus of Nazareth. Look at verses 11-15 where Christ talks to Ananias – that believing Jew in Damascus. Then Ananias answered, ‘Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:" God hadn’t forgotten the Gentiles. He did know that Israel wasn’t going to fulfill that Old Testament program, because she was continually rejecting The Messiah. We need to remember that the "Age of Grace" was predominately for the Gentile, even as the time before was predominately for the Jews, but the Jew was not locked out of Salvation during this time. Look down to verse 20. This Saul of Tarsus, having just realized who Jesus really was – the God that he had thought he was serving by persecuting the followers of Jesus – this same Saul in verse 20, goes to preach Christ in the "synagogues." We must understand this. Remember, faith is taking God at His word, but you can’t take Him at His word until He speaks it. If you’ll read on, you’ll find that God took supernatural means, immediately, to get Saul out of Damascus. There, he spent three years alone with his ascended Lord, and God poured out on that man all the doctrines that were to go out to the Gentiles – totally new and totally different doctrines. Paul was specifically commissioned to go to the Gentiles, as we’ll see in the following verses. By revelation!] Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.)" Paul never claimed to be taught by anybody. Turn to verse 24: This man had been taught, probably in a seminary. How could Aquila and Priscilla teach this learned man anything? How could Apollos have helped those "Grace believers" without having been taught the things of Paul? Galatians 1:11,12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." No, he says he received it by "revelation of Jesus Christ." There’s the difference between revelation and instruction. So, Saul knew nothing about the Gospel of Grace until God separated him down to Sinai and gave him, by revelation, the great new doctrines of Grace that would go to the Gentiles. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible