118 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 2 - Book 10 - Daniel's 490 Years

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 10 DANIEL'S 490 YEARS Daniel 9 & Matthew 24 Let's pick up that last period of time. We told you last lesson that the 490 years prophesied for Israel was divided into 3 segments. In one of the last Jerusalem Post articles written by one of the head Rabbi's in Israel, the headline read, "Is the end really near?" Even in Israel they realize that it is time for their Messiah. The rabbi recognizes from these same Old Testament Scriptures that when the Messiah comes, whether he is man or God, he wasn't all that sure on that. I have been stressing that God hadn't given up on the Gentiles, but would bring them to Himself through the Nation of Israel after the Kingdom was set up. Now that is the Old Testament. And the Old Testament speaks only of that progressing of events. We will see of course that when Israel rejected it, early in the Book of Acts, what God already had hidden in His mind, but He had never revealed it. Now let's come in at verse 27 of Daniel Chapter 9, where this prince that shall come out of the Roman Empire who would destroy again the Temple and the city of Jerusalem. This man would come on the scene and will sign a seven-year treaty with the Nation of Israel. Daniel 9:27 The Temple. Remember Jesus went into the Temple and drove out the money changers and livestock. What had the Temple become? A place of merchandise. Anyway, this man Anti-christ as we know him to be, will come into the Temple there in Jerusalem at the middle of the seven years. Here in this parenthetical period of time, there has been no indication, prophecy-wise, as to how long. The minute Anti-christ signs that seven-year treaty with Israel, God's time clock will kick in and will go right down the line for seven years, like it always did back in the Old Testament. Now see, we're not under that kind of a time frame tonight. Daniel 9:27 Let's go to Matthew 24. We're going to pick up the Tribulation Chapter in our New Testament. Now the whole Book of Revelation is the road map to the Tribulation. But before we go to Revelation, it's always a good idea to stop here in Christ's earthly ministry in the Book of Matthew. Matthew 24:1 "And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple." Now you want to remember the Temple was a whole complex, and the center of Israel's social fabric. Matthew 24:2 "And Jesus said unto them, `See ye not all these things? Verse 3: Matthew 24:3 Now remember, they understood the Old Testament format. They understood that Christ was here to be their King. Now they didn't understand the Cross. They had no idea, at this point and time, that he was going to the Cross. Because I constantly get the comment, "Well Les, I've never heard this before." Now to verse 31. Luke 18:31-33 "We're going to Jerusalem. Read the next verse: Luke 18:34 Read on): and this saying was (what's the word?) hid from them,..." You mean God actually blinded their understanding? Now let's go to John Chapter 20. Resurrection morning. The stone's rolled away and Christ is gone. John 20:2b Now read on. Peter of course, was shocked. I think Peter was a big, old, lumbering, big footed fisherman. I like to picture John as fleet of foot and just a little more finer boned than Peter. Well, John outruns him. But John's a little timid. Here comes Peter. John 20:5-8b John has now a little more nerve. Read on: John 20:8b,9 For as yet they (Peter and John and everyone else with them) knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead." Shocking? So let's just wait till Sunday morning." Because God certainly didn't reveal this to the pagan Gentiles. No idea whatsoever. Come on over into Romans Chapter 16. Now Paul is writing to us Gentiles. He's writing to the Gentile Church at Rome. Romans 16:25a Now what's revelation? It comes from the Greek word, musterion, which is also translated, secret. Romans 16:25 God is keeping something secret. Come back to Ephesians Chapter 3. Ephesians 3:1 "For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for (who?) you Gentiles (see, not for Israel, but for you Gentiles.)," Ephesians 3:2 Ephesians 3:4 "How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (or the secret) [as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read (the letters of Paul), ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.] Ephesians 3:5 was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;" Come down to verses 7 and 8: Ephesians 3:7,8 The Gentiles. Gentiles. Ephesians 3:9 hid in God,..." See, hid in God! Because it was still kept hidden in the mind of God. Colossians 1:26 "Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations..." #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible