902 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 2 Book 76 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture - Part 26

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 76 CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – PART 26 Genesis – Revelation (Dispensational View) For those of you joining us on television, in case this is your first time catching us, we're an informal Bible study. And hopefully, I don't preach at anybody. We just simply let them see what the Book says. To me that is paramount to everything—just understanding what the Word of God itself says. Well, we've only offered one book over the years, and we've still got it. It's a series of 88 questions and answers from our previous programs. If anyone out there is interested, you just give us a call, and the girls will get it out to you. We send it out with an invoice, so you don't have to pay for it until you get it. It’s the best $11 you will ever spend. We're going to pick right up where we left off in our last program. Now remember, we're connecting the dots of Scripture by going from Genesis, and hopefully we'll go all the way through to Revelation if the Lord tarries. But in the last half hour, we merely showed our proof that there would be an opening up of the timeline. Because those three references we used make it so plain that for a period of time Israel will be set aside and be dispersed while God goes to the Gentiles. Now naturally, when you have two such totally different groups of people as Jews and Gentiles, you can't go with the same thing. It just wouldn't ring true. So when God saves Paul, He doesn't just have him go back and check with the twelve disciples, as we saw in previous programs. Instead, He separated him purposely, kept him from the twelve, so that he would not get mixed up with the Kingdom economy. Because He's going to begin something totally different with Paul, which we call the Dispensation of the Grace of God as seen in Ephesians 3:2. Now, I'm well aware that there are a lot of people out there that detest the term dispensation. In fact, I had one fellow in my class one time who just suggested to his pastor, why don't you ever preach a sermon on the Rapture? He looked at him in shock, and he said, “I wouldn't dare do that.” He said, “Why not?” He said, “Well, then they'd call me a dispensationalist.” As if that's the worst thing that can happen. I am aware of that. And those of you who have been with me over the years—I never used the word for the first eight or nine years, because I knew it would turn a good number of people off. So I would just speak of it in general terms. Don't you realize that when Adam and Eve came out of the garden, everything was different? When Noah and the family came off the ark, everything was different? After God called Abraham, everything was different? After God brought Israel out of Egypt and gave them the Law, again, everything was different? Well, what makes it different? A different dispensation, a different administration, a different set of rules and regulations. So, after realizing that God was going to open the timeline and make a parenthetical period of time, we don't know how long, we call it the Dispensation of the Grace of God. And it came about through God's appointed Apostle of the Gentiles, Saul of Tarsus. I'm going to bring you now, just as an introduction to the dispensational view, to Ephesians chapter 3. We'll start at verse 1. Now remember, Saul of Tarsus—the rabid, orthodox, rabbi, Jew—whatever you want to call him, remember that God saved him on the road to Damascus and then immediately instructed him that He was going to go to the Gentiles, which God had never before done. Ephesians 3:1 “For this cause (Because of what he's written in the first two chapters.) I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles.” Now you've got to remember. Where is Paul when he's writing? Well, he's in prison in Rome. These are one of the prison epistles. And whether he had a short release or not, it ends up with his martyrdom at the hands of the Romans. So when he speaks of being a prisoner, it was literal. He was in prison there at Rome. And for what cause? For the cause of the Gospel. Ephesians 3:2 “If ye have heard (And no doubt they had, because after all, Paul's been out there now for 20 something years.) of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward.” See, that's where we get the title for this period of time. It's the Dispensation of the Grace of God. Now again, I've got to qualify. A dispensation is simply a period of time. It can be short or long or whatever. That doesn't matter. But a dispensation is a period of time during which God lays on a segment of people that He's dealing with a set of rules and directions. Now for the simplest one, of course, I always go back to the Garden of Eden. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible