886 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 74 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture - Part 10

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 74 CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – PART 10 Genesis through Revelation Okay, good to see everybody back. Again, we’re going to go right on with our study of Christ’s earthly ministry. We’re going to do like we did in the last program. For the next several programs, I’m going to start with Romans 15 verse 8 that says what we’ve been looking at so clearly. And while you folks are all looking that up, for those of you joining us on television, again, we want to emphasize the fact that we’re not out to push for numbers. We’re not trying to convince people how wrong they are. All we want to do is have them see what the Book really says, because tradition is a vicious thing. And that’s why the Apostle Paul is always warning against it. Beware of tradition. It’s like what I told one young man on the phone. He said, “Well, I’m believing what Grandpa believed.” And I said, “If Grandpa is in Hell, are you going to follow him there just because of tradition? You’ve got to go back and see what the Book says, not what Grandpa thought.” That is my whole premise. We want folks to see what the Book really says. All right, so if you’ll come back with me again, just for an opener, back to Romans chapter 15 verse 8. I don’t care if we read it often enough that you’ll know it before the afternoon is over. Romans 15:8 “Now I say that Jesus Christ was (You remember I emphasized the past tense verb.) a minister of the circumcision (Not of the whole human race, but rather Israel.) for the truth of God, to confirm (or to bring to fruition, or to fulfill) the promises made unto the fathers:” Now, that’s as plain as language can make it, isn’t it? That Jesus came to the Nation of Israel as the God-sent One, even though He was the Son of God Himself. He came to the Nation of Israel to fulfill all those Old Testament promises that we looked at in the last two tapings. How that Abraham was promised a nation of people, and that God would use them intrinsically and specifically to bring about His purposes. Then it wasn’t long, at least about the time of King David in 1,000 B.C., that we have the whole idea of a coming Kingdom. And David is the picture of the symbolism of this coming King and Kingdom. David wouldn’t be the one, but it would be the One in the lineage of David. So, we had the promise then of a king, almost beginning with King David. That earthly Kingdom will last for a thousand years according to Revelation. Which is still future. Well, then all the prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and then all the Minor Prophets—that’s all they write about—this coming glorious day for the Nation of Israel. But in the meantime, the nation of Israel would, because of their sinfulness and their unbelief, go through horrible times of correction and discipline. But through it all and through two different terrible times for Israel—the first one was the Babylonian invasion when the Temple was destroyed in 606 B.C., and the second time in A.D. 70 when the Romans destroyed everything and Israel was sent into dispersion—but always with the promise that the blessings would still come. All right, now here we come at the beginning of Christ’s earthly ministry. When we closed in our last half hour, John the Baptist had been pleading with the Nation of Israel to repent of their national sins, because they were to be prepared for this glorious, righteous Kingdom on earth, which would be absent of any sin. It’s going to be heaven on earth. Well, you can’t take all the sins of the flesh into that kind of scenario. So, the whole message of John the Baptist was to repent and wash with the water of the Jordan River and be ready for this glorious Kingdom. All right, now let’s jump back to Matthew chapter 5. Now then, we’ve got the timeline up here, again. While you’re looking for Matthew chapter 5, I’m going to review a little bit. Here we’ve come all the way from Adam to Abraham, which was two thousand years. In that first 2,000 years there was just one disaster after the next. You have the Flood. You have the Tower of Babel—a total rebellion. And then finally we have the appearance of Abraham in 2,000 B.C. Five hundred years later we’ve got Moses who brings the children of Israel out of Egypt, and they become a nation to be dealt with. Then 500 years after Moses, we’ve got David. Then a hundred years after David, we have the writing of the prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah and so forth. All right, in about 600 B.C. they were taken out and exiled to Babylon. Then they come back after 70 years, reestablish the Temple, and reestablish the city and the nation. Then the Minor Prophets come in. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible