838 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 70 - Israel's Glory is Still Ahead of Her - 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 70 ISRAEL’S GLORY IS STILL AHEAD OF HER - 2 Hosea 5:1 – 9:7 Okay, good to see everybody back. You’ve had your coffee. My, you folks out in television don’t know how these gals supply all of the goodies for the whole afternoon. It’s about like a banquet table back there, isn’t it? Anyhow, we always thank all the ladies here. Now, you know, way, way, way back when we first started, Iris did supply the cookies and stuff for it, but it got way beyond her. So, now she’s scot-free, and the rest of the gals have picked it up. But anyway, if you’re ever in the Mid-west and you can hit Tulsa on a first Wednesday afternoon of the month, stop in and spend the afternoon with us. It’s so interesting to meet people from out of state. Okay, let us get right back where we left off. We’re going to start where we finished; then I’m going to jump right back up to the New Testament. So, if you’ll come back with me to Hosea chapter 5, the last verse and going on into chapter 6. Then we’ll have to jump up to Matthew 24. Hosea chapter 5 where we left in the last program--verse 15, and as I said, this is the Lord speaking through the prophet. He says: Hosea 5:15 “I will go (to planet earth) and return to my place, (As we showed, to the Father’s right hand.) until they (the Nation of Israel) acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: (Which now, of course, we know was the crucifixion, the rejection of His offer to be their King.) in their affliction (In other words, they are still suffering because of it.) they will seek me early.” Well, you know it’s been 2,000 years, but they certainly had no idea that it would be that long. Now, as we jump right down into chapter 6, you want to remember that in the original writings there were no chapter breaks, so this is still dealing with His having come and returned to Glory, now verse 1 of chapter 6. Hosea 6:1 “Come, (The Nation of Israel is responding.) let us (the Nation) return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, (See, this is the coming chastisement that’s constantly prophesied.) and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.” Now verse 2, this is interesting, and I’m surprised that hardly anybody ever makes reference to it. Hosea 6:2a “After two days…” Now we know that Peter says so plainly “with the Lord a thousand years is but (What?) a day, and a day is like a thousand years.” Well, I think we can legitimately use that here. Hosea 6:2a “After two days, (two thousand years) will he revive us:…” My, and isn’t that exactly what we’ve seen in the last hundred years now? They started coming back around the turn of the century. And like the bones in Ezekiel 37, they came together. It wasn’t long until the land became productive. The Nation began to prosper. In 1948 they declared to the world that they were now an independent state. Since 1948, it’s been nothing but an increase in their population and in their prosperity. God has blessed them materially. But, the future chastisement and judgment is still going to come because of all their unbelief and their idolatry back here. It’s all accumulating. But nevertheless, back to the text in verse 2. Hosea 6:2 “After two days, he will revive us: (He will bring us back to a spiritual entity.) in the third day (or in the third thousand years) he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.” Well, I think that’s a reference to the Kingdom, when finally they will see all the promises come to fruition. But before that happens, they’re going to go through 2,000 years of sorrow and heartache and oppression. That will culminate with the Great Tribulation. That’s what we’re going to look at next – what faces the Nation of Israel because of God’s wrath on their unbelief and their rejection. We’ll pick it up now in Matthew 24. Now, we feel that Matthew 24 is all Tribulation ground. It’s the final seven years of Daniel’s 490 year prophecy in Daniel 9. In the middle of which Daniel wrote that this man anti-Christ will go into the then rebuilt temple and will defile it and will usher in those last three and one-half years, which are going to be as much hell on earth as the kingdom will be heaven on earth. It’s going to be beyond human description. But let’s take the whole picture. We’ve got time. Start in verse 1 of Matthew 24. This, of course, is toward the end of His earthly ministry. Matthew 24:1-2 “And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings (or the complex) of the temple. 2. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Of course, that was fulfilled with the Roman invasion of A.D. 70. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible