752 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 4 Book 63 - Abrahamic, and Mosaic Covenants

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 63 ABRAHAMIC & MOSAIC COVENANTS All right, the next covenant, as I mentioned at the beginning of our last program, is in the middle of the seven covenants that take place between Adam and the Kingdom. We’ll just touch on it briefly in this program, before we move on into the next covenant, which would be the Mosaic covenant, the bringing about of the Law of Moses. Genesis 12:1 Joshua 24:2 "And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers (your forefathers) dwelt on the other side of the flood (- Or River, that’d be the River Euphrates.) in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: (Abraham’s brother) and they (the whole family, the whole community, the whole then known world) served (What?) other gods." Go from your father’s house unto a land that I will (future) show thee." God says in His covenant promise: Genesis 12:2-3a This last part of verse 3: It’s because of this covenant that Christ came. It’s because of this covenant that Christ suffered and died. The covenant that God made with Moses and the Children of Israel. It is the foundation of the next covenant – The Law. All right, let’s pick it up in verse 3, Exodus chapter 19 verse 3. The nation is now out of Egypt. Verse 3: Exodus 19:3-4 "And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4. Exodus 19:5 Now, right there is the beginning of God elevating the Nation of Israel head and shoulders above all the rest of the nations and races of the world. This is why they are called the "favored nation." They are called the "chosen people." They are God’s covenant people and here is the first real indication of it. All right, finishing verse 5. Exodus 19:5b "…then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: (Here’s the reason.) God is Sovereign. For the most part, they’re going to have nothing to do with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Keep your hand in Exodus and turn to Ephesians chapter 2. Because a lot of times people kind of look at me cross-eyed when I let it be known that the Gentiles were never the object of God’s grace before the calling of Paul. Boy, what a word! Ephesians 2:11 "Wherefore (Paul is writing now to Gentiles at Ephesus.) remember, that ye being in time past (What?) Gentiles…." What is a Gentile? If they’re not members of the Nation of Israel, they are Gentiles. The rest are Gentiles. All right, reading on in Ephesians. Ephesians 2:11 "Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision (What was that? Ephesians 2:12 "That at that time (While God was dealing with Israel under these covenant promises.) ye (Gentiles) were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the (What?) covenants of promise, (That’s why we’re studying them now, today. The Gentile world was strangers from the covenants of promise.) Well, it wasn’t God’s fault, because they had proved, for the first 2000 years, that they didn’t have any interest in the things of God. All right, so the Gentile world, then, was totally separated from all of the covenant promises of Israel. Well, Judaism, The Law, was a religion. Exodus 19:8a Naturally, they are certainly God’s format for society. The Ten Commandments are still the basic laws of God. We have the moral law, the Ten Commandments. All right, when we come on over to chapter 21 verse 1, we come to the second part of what we call the Law. Now, in these succeeding chapters and on into the book of Leviticus, the civil law covered every aspect of human relationship with other humans. It’s interesting to see how much of Israel’s civil law is a part and parcel of our own Western civilization. Because after all, God was the one who gave it. Exodus 21:1 Now, this is aside from the moral law, the Ten Commandment Law. You come through all these succeeding chapters; these are the judgments to maintain society in the Nation of Israel. Now remember, you’ve got the moral law, the Ten Commandments. You’ve got the civil law – how to deal with your fellow neighbor. Exodus 24:3 God said it.) All right, now going on down to verse 7. Exodus 24:7-8 "And he took the book of the covenant, (This mandate that God has now placed upon the Nation of Israel.) 8. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words." Exodus 24:12 -13 13. And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up unto the mount of God." All right, here we come, chapter 29 verse 1. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible