949 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 1 Book 80 - Daniel Part 1 - 1

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 80 DANIEL: PART I - 1 Daniel 1:1 – 2:39 Okay, good to see everybody in this afternoon. For those of you visiting for the first time, we trust that this will be a new experience. We’re glad to have you with us. And for those of you joining us on television, it’s the same old story. We’re just a simple Bible study. And I’m so thrilled at the response we’re getting because of that. We’re keeping it simple, and yet people are hearing things they have never heard before. Now you know what that tells me? Most church people are pitifully ignorant of the Word. I mean pitifully ignorant. It’s almost heart breaking. But anyhow, we keep hammering away. We’re going to keep repeating some of these things. But this afternoon we are going to digress for a little while and go into the Book of Daniel. I don’t know how many programs that will take. We’re going to take it verse-by-verse, because we’ve had so many requests for it. And I usually listen to what people ask for. And again, for you out there in television as well as all of you here, we want to thank you for your prayers and your financial help and, as I’ve already mentioned, your letters. My, how the letters just thrill us when people write—young and old. I mean, all the way from 15 or 16 and on up to 90. And it is the same thing all over—we hear, “Never have I heard anything like this before.” Well, I’m not ashamed of that, because I’m not pulling any strings. I’m not twisting it. I’m just telling people, hey, what does the Book say? But you know, there are a lot of people that just can’t accept that. They’ve got to go by what they’ve always heard. What you say doesn’t mean anything, because it doesn’t jive with what I’ve always heard. Well, I don’t care what you’ve always heard – we’re going to go by the Book! All right, Daniel—now I’ve got to give some history, because I know most of you probably don’t like history as much as I do. But if you don’t have history in your background, then this Book is almost a closed Book—because so much of it is based on history. As I’ve said before, God does so many things in time-frame prophecies for the Nation of Israel. Well, when He puts it in a time frame, what does that tell you? A period of history goes by. I was just looking at a few of them again the other night. I should have written a note or so, and I could have passed it on. Maybe I can do it next taping. But anyhow, how many times did God make a promise to somebody in Israel for a certain number of years? The first one was Abraham. Four hundred and thirty years. Then there are several that are 490 years that ended right to the day. And then there are still other 430 years, I think. All of these are definitive time frames for a particular prophecy. All right, now the first point I always like to make when I open the Book of Daniel is—remember, that three of the prophets in the Old Testament wrote from outside the borders of Israel. Everybody else wrote from within Israel. You know, I always make the same point with Paul. Paul is the only one of our New Testament writers that writes from outside the land of Israel. And he was called outside the land of Israel. Daniel is the first one; Ezekiel is the second one; and the third one is John, who wrote Revelation. Now you know that Ezekiel was contemporary with Daniel out there in the Mede and Persian Empire, shortly after the Babylonian empire passed away. But Ezekiel held forth from the River Chibar, if I remember right, and Daniel writes from the palace in Babylon. And John writes from the Island of Patmos. They’re all three outside the borders of Israel. Then the other unique thing is—all three write in symbolism. You have to be able to define their symbolism if you’re going to understand what they’re talking about. Now, let’s just start with Ezekiel, for example. What’s one of the first symbols that Ezekiel uses? The dry bones. Well, he’s not talking about human bones out there in some meadow some place. He’s talking about the Children of Israel in a symbolic way. They were like dry bones out there. They’d been out there in the dispersion for hundreds of years, and then they’re going to come back as we’ve already seen. Well, that’s all symbolism. Now Daniel is going to give us several symbols. The first one we’re going to see, hopefully yet today, and that’s the image of a military type individual with a head of gold, the chest in silver, the belly of brass, the legs of iron, and the feet iron and clay. Well, that’s symbolism. It doesn’t say until you read through and let it define itself. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible