895 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 3 Book 75 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture - Part 19

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 3 * BOOK 75 CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – PART 19 Genesis – Revelation Okay, program number three this afternoon, and, again, we want to invite our television audience to study with us. Get your Bible. Take your notes. If you get a question that just confounds you, you call me. I’m on the phone almost every forenoon. I guess that’s just part of the ministry. We just encourage you, don’t sweat it. Just give us a call, and we’ll try to clarify if we possibly can. Like I said in an earlier program, usually when people call with a question, it’s because they heard me wrong, and I can’t help that. Anyway, here we go back to where we left off in our last program. And again, I guess I should thank my whole audience for your prayers and your letters and your financial help, because, after all, that’s what keeps us going. All right, back to Acts chapter 7 for a little bit. We’re still in the message that Stephen preached. He was not one of the Twelve, but one of the seven that were appointed to take care of some of the material needs of all these multitudes of Jews who had been staying in Jerusalem. Remember, they’re living out of the common kitty, and, as we’re going to see in probably this program or the next one, their money runs out. Isn’t it amazing? It happened and when the money ran out, they didn’t have money to go back home. So, where’d they end up? Being those poor Jews in Jerusalem who are mentioned several times in the epistles. That, of course, is going to go right on into Paul’s ministry, as we will see. But for now we’re still dealing with a multitude of Jews. We have Stephen making his appeal to the Jewish leadership that all the Old Testament was now being fulfilled right before their very eyes. And why can’t they see it is his message. You know, that’s what he’s asking them. Why can’t you see it? Well, he comes down to verse 35, still in chapter 7. He’s still rehearsing all the history of Israel. Now he’s up to Moses, who, after his second time, God used him to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt. All right, verse 35: Acts 7:35 “This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.” Now I trust you all remember that in Exodus chapter 3, where Moses saw that burning bush and stepped aside to see what in the world was going on. It was the Lord Himself speaking. He was telling him that He would now send him back to Egypt to lead His people out of bondage. So reading on in verse 36. Acts 7:36a “He brought them out, (out of Egypt) after that he had showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt,…” Now, I’ve got to stop a moment. Go ahead to First Corinthians chapter 1 verse 22. This is Paul writing years later, but he makes such an appropriate statement that I always like to have people lock onto. I Corinthians 1:22a “For the Jews require a sign,…” See that? That’s all you have to see in that verse. Now come back to Acts chapter 7. When did God begin dealing with Israel on the basis of signs and wonders? When Moses went back to Egypt. You remember the very first argument that Moses had that he wasn’t qualified anymore? He’d been herding sheep for 40 years. He’d been away from all educated people and a fluent civilization back there on the backside of the desert. He had all kinds of excuses. And what did God ask him? “What’s in your hand?” Well, a shepherd’s rod. What did He tell him to do? “Throw it on the ground.” What happened? It became a writhing snake. Now what does He tell Moses? “Pick it up by the tail.” And suddenly it was back to a shepherd’s rod. Well, it was, of course, a supernatural miracle, but for what purpose? To prove to Moses that God was going to use him to bring Israel out of Egypt! All right, now from that point on Israel is accustomed to the supernatural, miracle-working power of God all the way up, except for the four hundred years between Malachi and Matthew. Those four hundred years of silence. Nothing, other than Sampson. What did Sampson do? My, all those signs and people think they are just a figment of somebody’s imagination. No, God did it miraculously on up through the prophets and their supernatural ability to prophesy the future. That was all part of Israel’s history. They were accustomed then to, “show me a sign.” All right, so here we have it beginning with Moses who was shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt. Then the greatest one of all, I still think, is the miracle that God performed with Israel—the opening of the Red Sea. I mean, that’s just beyond our comprehension that God opened up the ocean as we would look at it, #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible