154 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 2 - Book 13 - Great White Throne

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 13 BEMA SEAT: GREAT WHITE THRONE: NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH I hope you have begun to study your Bible since you have joined our Bible study. To really study and compare Scriptures with Scriptures takes dedication, but this is the only way you can study correctly. We have been studying the Kingdom, and I have become aware that there are a lot of folk that stand staunchly against the concept of an earthly Kingdom. They have spiritualized the Scriptures, and everything that pertains to the Kingdom is spiritual in their eyes. Consequently, they refuse to accept the fact that the Bible is teaching a literal physical, political, earthly Kingdom. I read and study it so I have a good idea what's in their book. It's the same way with these people who are absolutely contrary to, and in opposition of, this concept of an earthly Kingdom, and Christ's Second Coming ahead of it. 1. Pre-Tribulation and Pre-Millennium. What we are talking about is the return of Christ. We believers in the Church Age believe that Christ is going to come from heaven to meet us in the air, to take us out before the Tribulation. So we speak of a Pre-Tribulation Rapture of the Church. So you have the Pre-Tribulation, Pre-Millennium concepts of the Scriptures, versus the Amillennium - that there is no such thing as an earthly Kingdom of a thousand years. There is no return of Christ to set up an earthly Kingdom. I just have a free-lance Bible study and we teach people in whatever denomination they are in, and they continue to attend their own church). So to refute my teaching the pastor handed out a little typewritten two-page publication ridiculing my stand on the Millennium, the Rapture and so forth. I read it a couple of times to see what he was thinking. People do not understand that for the first 250 years of Church history (from about 40 or 50 AD to 300 AD), the Church stood solidly on what we call Pre-Millennalism. You know the twelve disciples looked for the Kingdom. Now verse 3: Acts 1:3 kingdom of God:" The Kingdom is the Kingdom is the Kingdom. Now verse 6: Acts 1:6 kingdom to Israel?'" Now in the thinking of the Jews of Jesus' day, what Kingdom stood out as the high point in all of Israel's history? David's and Solomon's beautiful Kingdom. Well, the twelve understood that this kind of a Kingdom was once again going to be brought back to the Nation of Israel. Matthew 19:28 One day the earth will be regenerated (made like it was in the beginning) when the Son of man (The Christ) shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also(the disciples) shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'" We need to look at that for a time. I call this the Chapter of Israel's title deed. Genesis 15:18 "In the same day (God transferred the title deed to Abraham) the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, `Unto thy seed (Abraham's offspring) have I given this land, from the river of Egypt (near the Nile) unto the great river, the river Euphrates:'" Israel has never had it yet. Tonight, Israel just has a small amount of the land that God gave Abraham, but the day is coming when the Land of Israel will actually cover that whole Middle East. But this title deed will not be fulfilled until Christ sets up the Kingdom. And the twelve apostles will sit under Christ's throne there in Jerusalem, ruling over the twelve tribes just like it says in Matthew Chapter 19. That's the Kingdom as the twelve apostles understood it. Paul speaks of the Kingdom and since the Kingdom is not now on earth, but in heaven, Paul then speaks of our citizenship being in heaven. Colossians 1:13 "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:" When Christ returns to the earth with His Kingdom, where will we be? Paul taught it. John taught it and wrote the Book of Revelation. Emperor Constantine, the Roman Emperor, embraced Christianity. It destroys all end-time prophecies, because as I stressed when we first started prophecy several months ago, all prophecy is directed solely to the Jew. Then some years after Origen there came a great Roman Catholic Bishop named Augustine. Then Augustine precipitated what we call Amillennialism. That all the promises given to Israel had now been given to the Church. Martin Luther, Calvin and all the rest. Even from the Reformation there was nothing taught concerning the end-time. Then, about the middle 1800's, a gentleman from England by the name of John Darby (who many feel wrote one of the best translations of the Bible that has ever been written), became the tremendous proponent of what we call Pre-Tribulation, and the Pre-Millennial coming of Christ. I maintain the Jews in Israel tonight are the fulfillment of this Book. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible