935 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 3 Book 78 - Part 2 of the Messianic Prophecies Part 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 78 PART 2 of the MESSIANIC PROPHECIES – PART 3 Psalms 22, 23, and 24 Again, for those of you joining us on television, you can tell we’re informal. I mean we just don’t get too stiff if we can help it. We do appreciate the folks that come in and enjoy the afternoon with us. And for those of you in television, we just want to invite you to study with us. And evidently it’s working. Our letters tell us that you get your cup of coffee and you get your notepad and Bible and we have Bible study. Well, that’s what we like to hear. We always have to thank our TV audience, as well as all of you in here, for your support, prayers, financial, whatever. We just trust the Lord is getting all the glory for it. We just had contact with our mission group in Russia, and they’re still translating all our stuff into Russian and Ukrainian. Churches are using it, and the Lord is blessing it. And then last month in our retreat, we had a fellow from Spain and a fellow from Czechoslovakia who flew over just to be with us for a couple of days. They had picked us up on the internet. So you just have no idea how far the Lord is reaching with this—what I call—simple Bible study. That’s all it is. All right, we’re in a series of three chapters back in the Book of Psalms that are pretty much tied together—Psalms 22, 23, and 24. They all deal, prophetically of course, with Christ at His first advent and especially in His identity with the Nation of Israel as the Shepherd of the Sheep. In our previous two programs, we dealt with His crucifixion and how He died for the sheep. And then we saw in the last program how He arose from the dead in power and glory. Now we’re going to look at chapter 23, the Psalm that I imagine every one of you know practically from memory—the Lord is my Shepherd and so forth. Psalm 23:1 “The LORD is my shepherd;…” Now, if I’m not mistaken, the original Hebrew would say that the Lord here is the I AM—the Jehovah of the Old Testament. And you remember, the I AM of the Old Testament was Jesus of the New. It’s the same person of the Godhead who is claiming to be the Shepherd of Israel. Now we’ll jump up to the New Testament again for a little while, because I don’t like to get hung up in either part of Scripture. Because they dovetail so beautifully. Come up with me to Hebrews chapter 13. Here we have the term the Great Shepherd—Hebrews 13 verse 20. Hebrews 13:20 “Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead (See, just like we saw in Psalm 22.) our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,” Now, I think we have to stop and consider. From the very onset of Judaism, or the Jewish religion back there around Mount Sinai, they built the tabernacle—the tent made of animal skins—and established the priesthood and the feast days. And Israel became aware that there was only one payment for sin. And that was what? Blood. They saw it in Egypt when they put the blood on the doorposts. It was their escape. It was their protection. Now they also became aware of it, especially on the Day of Atonement—which was not a true atonement, because animal’s blood could not atone for their sin. All it could do was cover it. But you see, Israel had now gone through 500 years of their religion. So they had a pretty well-established idea that there had to be an atoning blood that would pay their sin debt, which animals’ blood could not do. This little Book of Hebrews shows that. In fact, while you’re in Hebrews, you might as well just back up so that you’ll know what I’m talking about. Back up to Hebrews chapter 9. This is what we have to understand. That everything is moving forward to the time when the true atoning blood would be shed. But, of course, Israel didn’t know how or why and when it would happen. Yet they had that understanding that animals’ blood could not take away their sin. It was just a cover-up. It was a temporary thing again. All right, the Book of Hebrews, after the fact, now tells us exactly how it is. Here in Hebrews chapter 9 and let’s start at verse 11. Hebrews 9:11 “But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, (Not made of animal skins, not made even of the cedars of Lebanon and gold and silver. But it was made without hands.) that is to say, not of this building;” Or this creation. It was in Heaven. Hebrews 9:12a “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood (the blood from Calvary) he entered in once into the holy place,…” Not in the Temple in Jerusalem, but the Tabernacle in Heaven. And you remember in John 20, that’s why He told Mary, Touch me not, I have not yet ascended to my God and your God. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible