973 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 1 Book 82 - Tribulation Prophecy - 1

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 82 TRIBULATION PROPHECY- 1 Daniel 9:25 – 11:31 Okay, good to see everybody in this afternoon. We realize there’s folks here from Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, and Alabama. Did I miss anybody? We’re glad that all of you folks came in. And for those of you joining us on television, again, we want to welcome you to another Bible study. We are presently going verse-by-verse through the Book of Daniel. We again want to thank you for your prayers, your letters, and your financial help—all that makes this possible. All right, we’re not going to waste any time for announcements. We’re going to go right back to where we left off in our last program—which for those of you in the studio, again, was a month ago. Back to Daniel chapter 9 and we’ll go on back to verse 24. Jerry’s got 25 on the board, which is a-okay. But let’s go back to verse 24, which is the beginning of this tremendous benchmark of Bible prophecy. You just cannot be a student of prophecy if you do not have an understanding of this portion of Scripture in Daniel 9:24 to the end. Because, again, it just refutes the scoffer, because this is so accurate. And that’s what drives them up the wall. Then they begin to accuse that—oh, this was written long after the fact, and that Daniel was just a forgery. But, not true. Daniel was recognized as a prophet by the Lord Himself in Matthew 24. So we can rest on the promises that this is the revealed, inspired Word of God, and this prophecy is absolutely necessary to understand our end-time events. All right, verse 24: Daniel 9:24a “Seventy weeks (Or seventy sevens of years—that’s 490 years.) are determined upon thy people (Now watch the language. God is addressing Daniel and the “thy people”, of course, of Daniel was the Nation of Israel.) are determined upon thy people (the Nation of Israel) and upon thy holy city, (Jerusalem) to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity,…” Now, I have to stop. I can’t help it. I wasn’t planning on that, but something just came into mind. Here about a month ago in one of my classes here in Oklahoma the subject came up – how much of the world did God reconcile to Himself when He finished the work of the Cross? All of it! And see, that’s hard for people to comprehend. Well, then we skipped from reconciliation to forgiveness. How much of the world’s sin was forgiven as a result of the Cross? All of it! And one gentleman, just almost aghast, said, “You mean to tell me that everybody’s sin is already forgiven?” And I said, “Yes.” Well, I tried to prove as much as I could from Scripture, but I don’t think the guy was satisfied. And you know, the next day I had in the mail a book that somebody had sent to me. I don’t remember the author’s name, but it was dealing with that very subject. Within two or three days, I got another book from some other part of the country dealing with the same subject. And before I got back to that class, I had a third one. So, I went armed with three books all dealing with the fact that when Christ finished the work of the Cross, He reconciled every human being. He forgave all the sin of every human being. Now, you see, that’s beyond us. That’s why it had to be God Himself who did it. No humans could have ever accomplished that. But now that does not make everybody go into Heaven when they die. It just means it’s possible. God has already done everything that needed to be done for the salvation of every human being, and all mankind has to do is believe it for their salvation. He died for the sins of the world, was buried, and rose again! And that brings up—now I’m going off Daniel. I can’t help that. I’m going off Daniel. Come back to John’s Gospel chapter 1. This just substantiates that the work of the Cross made reconciliation possible for every human being from Adam to the end. It made forgiveness a reality for the same number of people, because Christ did it all. All right, now that’s what makes this verse so pertinent. John 1:9 “That (speaking of Jesus as John the Baptist was announcing Him) that was the true Light, that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” Anybody exempt? No. In other words, everything that Christ did was not just for the few. It was for the total number. But what’s the sad reality? The only ones that can cash in on it are those who take it by faith. So what happens to most of them? It’s for nothing. And that’s what so heartbreaking—that here Christ has accomplished all of that. He went through the suffering and the death of the Cross so that He could bring reconciliation and forgiveness to the whole human race, and yet only the small few cash in and take it by faith. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible