941 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 1 Book 79 - Part 4 of the Messianic Prophecies Part 1

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 79 PART 4 of the MESSIANIC PROPHECIES – PART 1 Psalms 45, 46, and 47 Okay, good to have everybody in this afternoon. I just rehearsed with the crowd here that this is the most we’ve ever had. The camera that was over here has now gone all the way to the back. But anyway, those of you joining us on television, we just want to welcome you to an informal Bible study. We try to keep it simple, and yet we don’t want to over-simplify. Again, I want to take this opportunity—as I can’t answer every letter, I try to answer those with questions. But all your good letters, how I wish I could answer them, but I can’t. So I have to take this opportunity – thank you, thank you for your kind remarks and for your encouragement and letting us know that the Word is indeed changing hearts and lives across the country. And we want to thank you for your financial help. Now, in spite of all the financial crunch that has gone through, we still had, without any drop, the biggest month ever last month. And all I can do is say, “Praise the Lord,” because we realize that all the people are going through some hard financial times. All right, we’re going to keep right on in our study in the Psalms today. We’ve had a lot of requests for this over the years, “When are you ever going to teach something from Psalms?” That’s one reason I’m doing it. Yet, I just feel that it’s what the Lord would have us do. And as we always have to do when we look at the Old Testament, we always have to remember that the whole picture was first the sufferingand then the what? The glory that should follow. All right, Peter puts it so perfectly in his little epistle—I Peter chapter 1. I always like to start with verse 9. Now, we’ve been doing this at the beginning of almost every taping session. I’m getting old, but I’m not senile. I do this on purpose. I want to just drill this in, and maybe after a period of time you’ll actually know it from memory. Because that’s how memory works—if you repeat it and repeat it and repeat it, pretty soon you don’t even have to read it. You’ve got it. All right, I Peter chapter 1 starting at verse 9—now remember, who is Peter writing to? Fellow Jews. Believing Jews. They’re not the believers of the Age of Grace, but they’re believers in what? The Kingdom Gospel which was that Jesus was the Christ. They’re still under the Law. Nobody has told those Jews to stop Temple worship. The Temple is still operating. It’s not A.D. 70 yet. So always keep that in mind, that there is not—as I’ve taught it when we put it in the program years back—these little Jewish epistles do not have one word of church language. Not one word and I don’t know how all these theologians can miss that, but it’s a fact of life. Go through there with what we call a fine-toothed comb and you will not find one reference to the Body of Christ. You will find not one reference to salvation through faith in the death, burial, and resurrection as Paul shares in I Corinthians 15:1-4 for us in the Body of Christ! Not one. It’s all for the Jews, whereas our Gospel of Grace is for the Gentiles. So always be aware (I’ve said it over and over on this program) of what is not said in a portion as well as to what is said. Now, Peter is addressing the twelve tribes. He’s writing to Jews under the Kingdom economy. There’s nothing here of what we learn from Paul. The reason I use this as a kick-off for things in the Old Testament is just that very reason. I Peter 1:9-10a “Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 10. Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently,…” Now stop and think when you read something like that. What does that mean? They looked and they looked and they studied and they searched, and they couldn’t find what they were looking for. That’s what it means. I Peter 1:10b “…have inquired and searched diligently, (these same prophets) who prophesied (or foretold) of the grace that should come unto you:” At a later time and we’re going to be seeing that as we go through the Psalms today. Now then verse 11. I Peter 1:11a “Searching…” Now, you and I have no idea how the Jewish people—when they’re in a theology situation in Yeshiva—how they will sometimes look at nothing but one verse (if I can believe what I read) one verse maybe for weeks on end trying to see if they can pull something up that somebody else has never seen before. All right, so this is what it means—they searched and they searched. They studied. They contemplated. They meditated. I Peter 1:11 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible