885 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 1 Book 74 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture - Part 9

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 74 CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – PART 9 Genesis through Revelation Again, for those of you in television, if you’re a new listener, we’re not associated with any group. I’m not a pastor of a church. I’m just a cattle rancher. But we love to teach the Book, and the Lord has given me the opportunity to do this. We don’t try to attack anybody. We don’t try to elevate anybody. We just simply try to get people into the Book, and it’s working. My, if you could read our mail! It’s working. People are saying, “For the first time in my life, I’m understanding what this Book is all about.” Well, what more could we ask. That’s our whole purpose in teaching. It is to help folks to put all this together. All right, again we have to thank you for all your prayers and your letters and, of course, your financial help. We don’t want to forget that. But keep praying for us, because the devil doesn’t like what we’re doing. We are under satanic attack, and I think most of you realize that. All right, I’m going to continue on what we started in the last two tapings, or the last eight programs. That is more or less as Jerry titled it – “Connecting the Dots of Scripture,” didn’t you? Jerry titled it for me. We’re connecting the dots. I came up with that at one of my seminars. I think it might have been the one in Oklahoma City a year ago, where I don’t know how many people used the same expression on their way out. They said, “Les, today is the first time somebody connected the dots.” Well, you know what that means. When you just simply get all the subject matter tied together so that it makes sense. This is what we hope to do, and we started with the previous eight programs way back in Genesis and came up through the Old Testament and the promises, as we see in the verse we’re going to open up with – Romans 15 verse 8. So, for those of you in television, the studio has got a jump on you. I gave them the verse before we opened. Find Romans 15 verse 8 and I just called it, to the audience here, the introduction to the Book of Matthew. And you say, Paul? Introducing Matthew? Well, in reality it does. Here it is. Romans 15:8 “Now I say that Jesus Christ was (Now, naturally, that’s past tense from when Paul is writing.) a minister of the circumcision (That’s Israel, remember. So, He was--) a minister of the Nation of Israel for the truth of God, (It wasn’t something Paul dreamed up, but--) for the truth of God to confirm (or fulfill) the promises made unto the fathers:” Now, if you think about that for a minute. Isn’t that the perfect introduction to the four gospels? Well, for most people it doesn’t mean that at all. But it should. Because you see, as we ended up in our last program, I think the last verse I used was: Zechariah 14:9 “For the LORD (God the Son, Jehovah) shall be king over all the earth:…” And very few in Christendom understand that. They don’t know what we’re talking about. So, we have to just patiently keep repeating and repeating and it finally sinks in. All right, so look at the verse again. Romans 15:8a “Now I say that Jesus Christ (in His earthly ministry) was (years before Paul writes) a minister…” A sent one. A particular instrument that God used between Himself and the Nation of Israel. God sent Him to Israel for what purpose? You know what most people say? Well, to go to the cross. No, the cross hadn’t even been mentioned yet. There’s no inkling of a cross except in Psalms 22, and maybe if you’ve got a lot of imagination, Isaiah 53. But the cross was unknown in the Old Testament prophets. They didn’t know He was going to go to Roman crucifixion. But what did they know? He was coming to be a king over a kingdom. So all the prophets, and that’s what we’ve shown in the previous eight programs, were depicting a glorious, earthly Kingdom over which Israel is going to be the major player. They’ll be the major nation on earth, because Jesus Christ will be the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. All right, that was the promise made to the Nation of Israel. That not only would they be a favored nation, but the day would come when they could enjoy God Himself in the role of the Son who would be their Messiah and King, and Israel would be the top dog of all the nations. That’s what the Old Testament prophets are all about. All right, now we’re going to look at how it began to unfold. “He came to fulfill the promises...” Now, come back with me to Matthew chapter 3. We touched a little bit in previous programs on the announcement to Joseph and Mary of this virgin-born Son that was coming. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible