937 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 1 Book 79 - Part 3 of the Messianic Prophecies Part 1

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 79 PART 3 of the MESSIANIC PROPHECIES – PART 1 Psalms 40 and 41 Okay, good to see everybody in again this afternoon. For those of you out in television, we just checked with our studio audience—and, my goodness, we’ve got people from all over the country here today. Chicago, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, and Washington State and there might be another state or two that I’m missing. We’re just glad to have a representation from almost coast-to-coast. Oh, yea, I forgot about Gloria over there from Florida. Boy, she’s been looking forward to this day for months on end. We do appreciate it when you folks come in from a distance to spend the afternoon with us. All right, I’m not going to take any more time for announcements, because, you know, everybody reminds me this is the only Bible study they’ve really got. So we have to buy up the time. We’ll get as much in these thirty minutes as we possibly can. All right, we’re still going to continue on our walk through the Book of Psalms, picking out the Messianic Psalms. In other words, we will look at those Psalms that are definitively pointing to and representing the Messiah in His death, burial, and resurrection. Now, that doesn’t mean the rest of the Psalms doesn’t mention it, but they are not as graphic. We’re just picking out the Psalms that most graphically describe His first advent and the Glory that will follow. Okay, now I’m going to do like we did in the last taping, maybe even the one before. I’m going to kick off every program with these verses. Because I want people to almost see these two verses in their sleep and be aware of it when they wake up in the morning. I Peter chapter 1 and we’ll drop in at verses 10 and 11. Remember now, who wrote it? The Apostle Peter. Who was he writing to? Fellow Jews who were looking forward, of course, to the coming of the Tribulation—just over the horizon—and the Second Coming. They all thought that was going to be in their lifetime. But Peter is reminding them of something. That’s why we’re taking an in-depth look at the Book of Psalms. I Peter 1:10a “Of which salvation the prophets (the Old Testament writers) have inquired and searched diligently,…” Now, I’ve got to stop a minute. I can’t help it. I wish could. Don’t you? Marilyn here is from Chicago. She’s been listening to me for years. She and her friend Mary stopped by yesterday, and they put on a little skit—just for Iris and me. She’s mimicking me—all the way through from the way I start until the way I end. Well, it just reminded me of it, because this is part of it. We’re going to be stopping every now and then. When it says that they searched diligently—do you know that even today in these Jewish yeshivas (You’re going to want to know how to spell that, aren’t you, Sharon?)—in these Jewish yeshivas—which are places of learning for young Jewish men—they may spend a whole day, maybe a week, just contemplating one verse of Scripture. Or maybe even a part of a verse. Now, that’s what I think of when I see this word that those old prophets were looking at all these things diligently. Not just haphazardly writing, but they were really searching and trying to get an understanding of all these Old Testament Scriptures that were looking forward to a Messiah, which they understood. But as I mentioned the last time, and I’ll probably mention it several times before we get through with this. They could understand the coming of a Messiah—but two of them? Now that threw them a curve. Here it comes now, and then you’ll know what I’m talking about. I Peter 1:10b “…they searched diligently, (those prophets) who prophesied (or foretold) of the grace that should come unto you:” Now remember who Peter is writing to. He’s writing to fellow Jews. And these prophets now in verse 11 were: I Peter 1:11 “Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ who was in them (As they wrote, remember. That’s why we’re always emphasizing Holy Spirit inspiration. Otherwise, these men could have never done what they did.) who was in them did signify, when it (or I prefer He) testified beforehand (through the writing of these prophets now) the suffering of Christ, and (What?) the glory that should follow.” Now, if you’ll remember way back when we were going through the Book of Isaiah, pretty much chapter and verse, I laid that out so clearly—that Israel was being foretold that three times they would suffer the discipline of God because of their unbelief, but it would be followed with blessings. The first one was the Babylonians. The second one—of course that wasn’t followed with blessings so much, but still was an act of God—was the A.D. 70 invasion and destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans and then their dispersion. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible