926 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 2 Book 78 - Christ as the Rock of scripture - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 78 Christ as the Rock of Scripture – Part 2 Various Scriptures We’re beginning the next twelve programs going into the next book, Book 78. We’re taking sort of a subject matter today. We’re looking at Christ as the Rock and the Stone of Scripture. For this half hour, we’re going to look at the stumbling aspect of the Stone. How Israel was prophesied to do it and they did it. And they still are stumbling over that Rock of offence. We’re going to start our Scripture in this half hour in Psalms 118 verse 22. While you’re looking that up, and for those of you out in television, again, we just want to invite you to a Bible study. That’s all we hope it to be. I don’t feel like I’m an evangelist. Although if you’d read our mail and how many people are getting saved, you’d kind of think so. But, you know, only once or twice in all the thirty years that I’ve been teaching has somebody come up and said, “Les, you should have given an invitation.” One of them was at one of our times in Jerusalem last fall. We had a little over 200 people on that tour. For one reason or another, I was kind of wound up that night, even though it was long day. I think I had a nap a little while before. And, boy, when we went to that, I was wound up. And several people said, “Lands, Les, you should have given an invitation.” But I’ve never considered myself an evangelist or preacher. I prefer to just be the teaching end of it, and let the Scripture speak for Itself. All right, now in Psalms 118 verse 22, we have that exact language. Psalms 118:22 “The stone which the builders refused is become the headstone of the corner.” Now you have two opposites there, don’t you? I’ve referred to it before on the program. I think it is more legend than anything, but yet Scripture certainly supports that something like that might have happened. While they were building the Temple—whether it was Solomon’s or Herod the Second’s temple is irregardless—all the stones were cut exactly out at the quarry, wherever that was, so there was no hammering and chiseling at the building site. And, probably through a mistake of the quarry workers, they sent one of the key-stones that was waiting for the latter end of the building. They sent it too early. And the builders on the building sight couldn’t figure out where it was to go. So, naturally, as men would do, they rolled it off to the side. The weeds grew around it, and it became a stone of stumbling. Well, I like that analogy, because that’s exactly what happened. You see, when Christ came the first time, Israel, like those builders, didn’t know what to do with Him. Think about that for a minute. They should have. They should have been able to search the Scriptures, but they didn’t. So they rejected the “stone of stumbling” by crucifying Him and literally screaming, “…we’ll not have this man ruling over us.” But the last half of this verse is prophecy. And it’s still prophecy. But it’s coming. We’re getting closer and closer every day for the return of Christ, and then it will be in total fulfillment of all these prophecies. For He will indeed, yet, become the “Headstone of the Corner” of all these promises that have been given to the Nation of Israel. Now, we’re not talking about a building, per se, of stone and mortar. We’re talking about a spiritual concept—how that when Christ will finally come and set up this glorious earthly kingdom and be King of Kings and Lord of Lords, then that building will become complete. And, of course, He is the Cornerstone, the Headstone, or anything else that you’d want to put on that which is the most important. But here again, verse 22: Psalm 118:22a “The stone which the builders refused…” Now just get the picture. The stone came in from the quarry. It came to the building sight. The builders didn’t know what to do with it, so they rolled it aside. It became a stone of stumbling. But the end result is that He’s still going to be everything that He claimed to be. All right, now let’s jump ahead a little bit to Isaiah chapter 8 verse 13. Again we have the same concept. Now I’m going to keep repeating all afternoon that this is a concept between God and Israel. Paul is going to refer to the stone of stumbling, but he’s going to refer to it with regard to Israel. We’ll see that maybe in this half hour, otherwise in one of the later ones. But the Rock and the Stone concept is between God and Israel. Isaiah 8:13-14a “Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 14. And he shall be for a sanctuary, but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel,…” See how clear the language puts it? #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible