694 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 58 - The Nation of Israel Must Be - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 58 THE NATION OF ISRAEL MUST BE - PART 2 JUDE Where Jude says: Jude 1:5a Listen, this Book would fall apart if God did not fulfill every prophecy. They have to be fulfilled or it’s not the Word of God! God has interrupted it in His sovereignty, but it’s still coming. Alright, so Jude now then, is taking his Jewish believers back to Egypt. We all study the Exodus and how God miraculously brought the people out of slavery and took them through the Red Sea, so it’s just as appropriate for us to remember these things as it was for the Jewish believers to whom Jude is writing. Alright, so he says, remember that when the Lord saved the people out of the land of Egypt miraculously after the plagues had pummeled Egypt. Mountains on both sides, the Egyptian army and the chariots behind them and the Red Sea in front. And I always like to remind, like Jude is saying, remember, did God say well, hurry up and do something? Let the power of God exert itself." God opened the Red Sea. FAITH! My, it took faith. Well, they didn’t, except by faith. And so they walked through on dry ground, by faith, coming up on the other side now, a redeemed people. The people are too big. Well what did God tell them? Now, I can’t answer the question, I’ve asked it for years as long as I’ve been teaching, I’ve had this question. Tough question. I don’t have the answer, that’s where God is sovereign, thank goodness. Do you think they’re saved?" I don’t know, only God looks on the heart. Now in verse 6, we jump into a different category – angels. Jude 1:6a And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left (in other words, by choice, they turned away from their sovereign God as angels) their own habitation,…" Jude 1:6b God is speaking through the prophet, and he says: Ezekiel 28:13 Ezekiel 28:14a "Thou art the anointed cherub (or angel) that covereth;…" In other words this individual we’re dealing with was the ruling angel over some sort of angelic kingdom. Ezekiel 28:14b-15 "…and I have set thee so: (in His Sovereignty, He placed this angel in this particular place of beautiful gemstones, as well as control over an angelic host) thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15. Thou wast perfect (he was a sinless angel) from the day that thou wast created, (here we know he was a created being) until (at some point in time) iniquity was found in thee." Isaiah 14:12-14 "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: (in other words, he would assume God’s position) 14. Doesn’t that sound like old Satan today? I’m going to usurp God’s throne. But God answers: Isaiah 12:15 Back to Jude, verse 6. Satan of course, Lucifer, did not experience the incarceration that his followers did. Choice! Alright, so what prompts us as human beings, God’s creation – created being, what prompts us to make these bad choices? Well, it isn’t because of their unique makeup, it isn’t because of their personality, it isn’t because of their looks, it’s because this adversary of God, this Lucifer, fallen now, and we know he’s Satan - knows that if he can knock Israel out of the earth’s existence, then God’s whole program falls apart. Because, as you see, as I’ve said over and over on this program, Israel is at the heart of everything that God does. Hatred! Sin! Because Satan knows and he works on them constantly. Alright, let’s bring you all the way up to the Book of Esther. Fortunately God had His own little Jewish girl in the right place at the right time and thanks to Esther, the whole thing fell apart. But did Satan quit? No! He keeps on and so everything is directed to stop God’s program. Well, why kill the Christ child? Oh, that’s what Satan wanted. Satanic power! Satan working overtime to stop God’s prophetic Scripture. And so why the hatred of Israel tonight? Never lose sight of that. Jude 1:7 an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." Why can’t the world read this? Sodom and Gomorrha came under the judgment of God, not just to punish that group of people, but to tell the rest of the human race what God thinks about that kind of activity. It was an example showing us God’s reaction to the lifestyle of the Sodom and Gomorrhaites. Now it isn’t that God doesn’t love them – God loves sinners of any stripe, and He’ll save them to the uttermost, but He’s going to bring down judgment wherever it becomes a complete practice of society. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible