729 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 1 Book 61 - The Glorious Promises to Israel

Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 61 THE GLORIOUS PROMISES TO ISRAEL ISAIAH 54:1 – 57:1 We just praise the Lord! The nation of Israel has just recently been divided into the Northern Kingdom with ten tribes, the Southern Kingdom with two. God’s wheels grind slowly and surely. Let’s go on into chapter 54 as we come into the glorious promises that will follow Israel. Christ will return and Israel is going to have all these Old Testament promises fulfilled. Isaiah 54:1a thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child:…" Isaiah 54:1b Isaiah 54:2a "Enlarge the place of thy tent,…" Isaiah 54:2b Isaiah 54:3a "For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; (Blessings upon blessings are waiting for the nation of Israel.) and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles,…" Isaiah 54:3b Let’s go all the way back, if you will, to Deuteronomy chapter 28, and we’ll get a glimpse of the blessings that are awaiting the Nation of Israel. All right, let’s drop all the way in at verse 9. Now, these are all promises that God has made to the Nation of Israel. "The LORD shall establish thee a holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. (In other words, God demands obedience.) 12. The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow." What’s Israel’s financial situation today? Israel will be in a position to lend to other nations. Deuteronomy 28:13 "And the LORD shall make thee the (what?) Now remember, these are all Old Testament prophecies and promises. Some people call it "replacement theology." I call it plain old "amillennialism." Then our God has failed! Our God is still in control. God knows who they are. Is God lying? 22. Yea, many people and strong nations (That’s the Gentile world.) shall come to seek the LORD of hosts (Where?) in Jerusalem, (That’ll be the world’s capital) and to pray before the LORD. Because of all these promises. All right, let’s go into the New Testament. You remember that one of the priests of Israel was a man by the name of Zacharias and his wife’s name was Elizabeth. Zacharias and Elizabeth supernaturally had a child whose name was John the Baptist. Practically everybody in Israel knew it. All right, let’s pick it up in verse 64, Luke 1:64-65 All right, here we go, verse 66: Luke 1:66 All right, now this is what he says, and remember what we’ve just read in the Old Testament. Luke 1:67-69 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he (the Lord) hath visited and redeemed his people, 69. Luke 1:70-71 Who were Israel’s enemies from day one? Israel won’t have to worry about Nazis or Communists or anybody else. Luke 1:72-73 "72. To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; (What covenant?) I read a long time ago how God made the Nation of Israel "different’. All right, now let’s go back again. The Abrahamic Covenant promised that out of Abraham and Sarah would descend this special nation of people. Because out of Israel would come first the Word of God, out of Israel would come the Messiah, and out of Israel would come all the prophetic promises. You’ve heard me say it over and over, Israel is the hub of God’s wheel; you pull Israel out, you destroy the nation of Israel, and God’s program falls apart, and, again, you could throw the Book away. But, Israel will never, never leave. Luke 1:74-75 Isaiah 54:3-4 Isaiah 54:4 "…for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth,…" That is as a nation they’ll forget all the trials and tribulation that the nation of Israel has gone through over these hundreds and hundreds of years. Isaiah 54:4 "…and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. All right, verse 5: Isaiah 54:5 "For thy Maker (the Creator) is thine husband;…" In Hosea’s little six or seven chapters we have a beautiful picture of Israel as the adulterous wife of Jehovah. Because, she ran after other gods. Isaiah 54:5 "For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called." Now, there again, that puts all other gods and goddesses and religions, whatever you want to call them, it just puts them down into the realm of nothingness, because only the God of Israel is the God of Creation and the God of this Book. "For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, (and that marriage has been dissipated by unfaithfulness because of Israel’s chasing after other gods) when thou wast refused, saith thy God. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible