50 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 2 - Book 5 - Law - Weak and Beggarly

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 5 Law – Weak and Beggarly Genesis 21-23 Genesis 21:14,15 God had instructed Abraham to do this, remember. Genesis 21:16,17 fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.'" Remember, the "Angel of God" or the "Angel of the LORD" is always Jehovah; God the Son in another theophany, or appearance in human form. Genesis 21:18,19 When we depend on the flesh, we get "a drop in the bucket;" but with God, we get wells of living water! Genesis 21:20,21 "And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. Hagar, Ishmael’s mother, had originally come from Egypt? Let’s skip some intervening verses here where Abraham deals with Abimelech. Genesis 21:33 "And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God." A few weeks ago we explained these names of God or Jehovah, God the Son. Abraham, from Beersheba called on the name of the LORD, or the name of Jehovah, the everlasting God. Although the English kind of leaves us "hanging" here, in the Hebrew, the "everlasting God" is "Elohim Olam." Abraham called on Jehovah and remember, Jehovah is God The Son, The Christ of the New Testament! Who is, to clarify, "the everlasting God." We see that God can do this from His very Name of Deity. He is "everlasting God." I’ve already mentioned the word "Elohim," which is the plural form of the word for "God," and this now states that He is the "Elohim Olam." In Leviticus "Olam" is used to speak of "a specific time." In another place, "Olam" is translated as "hid" or "hidden." Psalms 10:1 why hidest thou thy self in times of trouble?" While in Leviticus, "Olam" was translated as "time," here in the Psalms, this same word was translated "hidest." So the word "Olam" here refers to something hidden, or more specifically, God’s being hidden from view. See verse 2: Psalms 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting (Olam) to everlasting (Olam), thou art God." The everlasting God, then, as used in Genesis, is speaking of more than the God who exists from eternity past (before Genesis 1:1) through the end of the timeline to eternity future. God from Everlasting to Everlasting Eternity The God Who is from everlasting to everlasting is also the God of intrinsic time. Also, since He is Sovereign, He is fully able to either reveal everything within time or keep it secret. I know this is getting deeper than you may like to go, but I think it’s imperative to understand this premise, so that we can go to the timeline and show how there were times when God did not reveal, and there were times when He did reveal. Then, because mankind went down, down, down, we come to the time when God decided He’d have to start all over, and so came the Flood. Noah and his sons were then given permission to kill animals and eat the flesh thereof, which had not been allowed by God before. So it’s important to see that each time we come to the various breaks in time, entirely new sets of circumstances arise. Then, about 175 years following the flood (because the people had been disobedient and had not scattered across the earth as God had instructed, but had congregated in the valley of Shinar at the tower of Babel), God confused their languages and caused them to scatter. And about 150 years following the dispersion from the Tower of Babel, God did something else which was totally different. Beginning with the Nation of Israel, Abraham’s descendants, God began to work in a totally different manner with regard to things being hidden or being revealed. This period of time which I’m calling the "Age of Grace" is an undetermined period. Back in Israel’s history, God would lay out his plan on a time-table. Romans 16:25,26 This concerns the fact we are not under Law, we are under Grace, and only the Sovereign God has the right to make that distinction. But He chose through the ages to keep secret the fact that there would be a time when men and women would be saved by Grace through faith plus nothing! Ephesians 3:1,2 "For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation (administration) of the grace of God which is given me to you - ward:..."It was no longer for Jews only, but now Gentiles were included! Earlier we showed that when God gave the Law to Israel through Moses on the mountain. Moses then came down to the people and gave it to them – so it came from God to Moses to the people of Israel. Ephesians 3:3-6,9 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible