836 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 part 4 Book 70 - Adulterous Israel to be Restored - Part 4

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 70 ADULTEROUS ISRAEL TO BE RESTORED – PART 4 Hosea 2:14 – 4:14 Okay, here we are with lesson number four for the afternoon. For those of you joining us on television again, we’re just a simple Bible study. We are not connected with any group. I don’t have a large church, so don’t write and ask me about being a pastor or anything like that. I’m just a layman. But the Lord has seen fit to use us, whatever we are. We just ask people to search the Scriptures. Don’t go by what I say. Don’t go by what your denomination says. It might get you in trouble. You search the Scriptures, because that’s where it’s at. Because men are prone to get fouled up in their thinking. I’m amazed once in a while at the things that great men of reputation can come up with. And I hope and pray it will never happen to me, because it can. I can see that. All right, we’re going to continue right on in our study of the book of Hosea. Remember in our last closing moments, we were talking about that when the Church is completed then God will come back and pick up His program with Israel. Now, before we go into chapter 4, I want to jump back to verse 5 of chapter 3 for just a second. Because here we have that same word--after--as we saw in Amos and in Acts chapter 15. Hosea 3:5a “Afterward shall the children of Israel return, (They’re going to come back from this time out in the dispersion.) and seek the LORD their God, and David their king;…” Now here again, don’t get confused with that, because Christ in Scripture is the Son of David. Although some teach that David may rule and Christ over David--I’m not going to make a big argument of it--but I don’t think so. I think Christ is going to rule from David’s throne on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. Hosea 3:5b “…and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.” Well, that’s where we are. We’re in the latter days, I think, of God’s program for Israel and for the world. All right, now let’s jump into chapter 4. Again, God’s going to come right back and deal with Israel’s sin, and all their sin is associated with their idolatry. I’ll point that out as we come to it. Verse 1 Hosea 4:1 “Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel:…” See, now this isn’t written to us. This is written to Israel. But it’s for our learning, as Paul puts it. So, it’s still Scripture. It’s the Word of God, but it’s not written to us. It’s written to the Jew. Hosea 4:1-2 “Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy (He’s got a point that He’s dissatisfied with the Nation.) with the inhabitants of the land, because (Now look at their condition.) there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood touching blood.” In other words, they are murdering so often that the blood of one victim is almost mingling with the blood of the next one. All right, now let’s go and see how close we are worldwide to this same situation. Go to Paul in II Timothy chapter 3, and see if we aren’t in the same scenario that Israel was in back at the time of Hosea. This is Paul’s preview of the end of the Church Age--not the Tribulation, but the Church Age. That’s what I maintain when people say, “Well, the Church isn’t going to get raptured until we’re in the Tribulation.” Then why doesn’t Paul make any reference to disaster and death and destruction? He doesn’t. Not a word of that. But on the other hand, it’s a complete moral breakdown, even as you saw in Hosea. All right, II Timothy chapter 3 and this is the state of the world as the Church is approaching its end on earth. II Timothy 3:1 “This know also, that in the last days (That is the last days of the Church Age, now.) perilous times shall come.” Well, if you don’t think we’re there, you’re not living in the world that I’m living in. And I’m out here in the boondocks of Southeastern Oklahoma. So, if I can be aware of it, certainly anyone should be that this is exactly where we are--now verse 2. II Timothy 3:2a “For men shall be lovers of their own selves,…” What’s the fancy word for it? Narcissism? Is that the word? Yes, all people live for is the “I.” I! I! I! Nuts to you! It’s all about me! All right, that’s a sign of the end times. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible