818 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 2 Book 69 - Redeem, Redeemed, Redemption - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 69 REDEEM, REDEEMED, REDEMPTION – PART 2 Various Scripture References We’re going to get on with program number two this afternoon. For those of you joining us on television, we’re just an informal Bible Study. I like to compare it to a Sunday School class more than anything. We’re simply comparing Scripture with Scripture. My whole idea of this is to get people to study their Bible by themselves. Don’t go by what I say. Don’t go by what some preacher says. You go by what the Book says, because this is how we’re going to be judged one day. Okay, we’re looking at a little different approach to Scripture today. We’re looking at the whole process of redemption as we see God exercise it in various ways and forms from Genesis to Revelation. As I mentioned in the last program, I really wanted to do this with the Book of Ruth, but I couldn’t do it with Ruth alone, so we’re going to have to put it all together and then come back and see where the picture of Ruth and Boaz figure in. All right, in this lesson we’re going to go back and look at the beginning of the Nation of Israel and how God lost them. Again, it’s a picture of what was once God’s He lost and He has to redeem them. So, let’s go all the way back to Genesis chapter 37. We’re going to jump all the way up to when Joseph was having his dreams. I don’t think I have to rehearse for most people that Joseph is the dreamer. The brothers are starting to hate him a little bit more all the time until finally, one day, old father Jacob sends him out to check on the brethren. They conspire and say, here comes that dreamer, let’s get rid of him. All right, so drop all the way down to Genesis 37 verse 19. I want you to see how all this took place, that here we have the Abrahamic Covenant, and it has now become a reality. Isaac has come and gone. Jacob has sired the twelve sons which will be the twelve tribes of Israel. We’re still in the early stages, of course, but the Nation has now gotten a good beginning. Genesis 37:19 “And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.” Which was Joseph, and then they conspire between themselves what to do with him. First they want to kill him. Then they decide to throw him into a pit, and you know the story. So, let’s drop down to verse 26, where the eldest of the brethren, Judah, has a little bit of compassion left in him. Genesis 37:26-28 “And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay (or kill) our brother, and conceal his blood? 27. Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, (slave traders) and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content. 28. Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph to Egypt.” Now that is merely the beginning of the process that brought the whole Nation of Israel down into the land of Egypt where they became slaves of the Egyptian Pharaohs and so forth. But it all started with the evil thinking and reaction to this godly man, Joseph, who was actually dreaming things that were prophecy. He was dreaming of the time when indeed they would be coming down to Egypt, and they’d have to bow down to him in order to get food for sustenance. But of course, none of them understood that as yet. But, what we want to show in just this little bit here is how the beginning of the Nation under Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and his twelve sons is now interrupted by the first step in God’s losing them as they go down into Egypt. All right, now we know that after they’re in Egypt for a period of time, they come under abject slavery and the persecution and pressure of the Pharaohs, and then God’s going to do something totally different. Now, jump all the way up to Genesis chapter 46. We’re going to see how everybody ends up in Egypt, and it all began with selling Joseph into slavery. Joseph, of course, comes out of prison and becomes the second man in Egypt. He puts together the seven years of plenty. You know the story. I don’t have to rehearse that. But now we come to the place where Jacob and the brethren have had to go to Joseph to get grain, not knowing who he was, of course, the first time. But when they went back the second time, then they understood that Joseph was indeed their brother, and Joseph made it known that the brethren were his brethren. And that, of course, is a point that Stephen makes in Acts chapter 7, that for whatever reason, Israel always has to have a second go around. When the brethren went down to Joseph the first time, they didn’t know who he was. They didn’t have clue. But Joseph knew them. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible