630 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 2 Book 53 - The Word Complete - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 53 The Word Complete - Part 2 James 1:1-23 We love her like one because she now works with Jerry and Lorna Pool as they do the little books for the ministry. So James is getting these Jewish believers ready for this Tribulation that was to come, and we’ll look at that first, and then I’ll show how Paul alludes to it. Let’s just start with verse 8. James 5:8 "Be ye also patient; (now remember James is writing to Jews in that period of time right after Pentecost) stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." All right, let’s go over and see how Peter puts it in his first epistle and that’s in I Peter chapter 4 verse 7. And Peter, now, according to the times I’ve got here on the board, is writing I Peter probably in the late 50’s AD, or somewhere in that neck of the woods. I Peter 4:7 at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." The Gospels and James and Peter and now look what John said: I John 2:18 "Little children, (and remember he, too, is writing to Jewish believers) it is the last time: and as ye have heard that anti-christ shall come, (now what’s he referring to? The Tribulation. John also is not thinking in terms of another 2,000 years. I John 3:1 All right, now verse 2: I John 3:2 Well, what’s he talking about? The soon coming of Christ. It’s certainly not a big thing with Paul. He only talks this prophetic program in a few verses in II Thessalonians. It’s the only place in all of Paul’s writings that he makes any allusion to this end-time scenario of the Tribulation and the Second Coming and so forth. All right, II Thessalonians, chapter 2 verse 3. Here Paul says: II Thessalonians 2:3 II Thessalonians 2:4 "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." All right now, come back with me then to I Corinthians chapter 15. "Behold, I shew you a mystery;…" Now that’s a word that Paul uses over and over. Understand it. All right, so he says: I Thessalonians 4:13-14 For if we (including himself) believe that Jesus died and rose again, (which is Paul’s Gospel of salvation) even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." All right, verse 15: I Thessalonians 4:15-17 "For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (or precede) them which are asleep. Now remember, Paul is talking in this time frame (10 to 20 years) here on the chalkboard as Christ has ascended, but the Tribulation hasn’t begun yet. No hint, with one or two exceptions (well I guess I could take the time to show you the exception). Hosea, which is right after the book of Daniel. Hosea chapter 5, the last verse and the first two verses of chapter 6. I think this is the Lord is speaking: Hosea 5:15 Hosea 6:1 Now chapter 6 verse 2: Hosea 6:2a Hosea 6:2b Pretty plain isn’t it? It’s just pretty plain. All right, back to I Thessalonians chapter 4, and verse 17, where Paul is using the pronoun "we:" I Thessalonians 4:17-18 Now drop into chapter 5 and if this doesn’t clearly depict a pre-Tribulation out-calling, I don’t know what does. I Thessalonians 5:1-2 "But (Paul says) of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord (that’s the Tribulation remember) so cometh as a thief in the night. All right, I’m going to take II Peter first, chapter 1, and verse 14. All right, so after the prison epistles including I Timothy, now a couple of years later, Paul is back in prison and he’s going to be writing II Timothy, which I showed in the last program will finish the New Testament writings, but look what II Peter writes at about the same time. II Peter 1:14 "Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, (in other words, the body of flesh) even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me." You remember at the miracle of the fishes, when the Lord told him, "Peter feed my sheep," three times? And then the Lord told him that he would suffer a martyr’s death in veiled language. All right, now, at almost the same time, I think - and I’m going to say within a matter of a few days or months at the most, look what Paul writes now in the last book of our New Testament. II Timothy chapter 4 and what a difference in language. Christ would return at His Second Coming, and the Kingdom would be set up. II Timothy 4:6-8 "For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. Suddenly the Apostle Paul realized he is not going to get out of prison this time. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible