927 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 3 Book 78 - Christ as the Rock of scripture - Part 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 78 Christ as the Rock of Scripture – Part 3 Various Scriptures Okay, it’s good to have everybody back from their break. We’re glad you’re back. And for those of you joining us on television, you don’t know what you’re missing by not being able to come in on a Wednesday afternoon. Because we just have a good time, don’t we? It’s a good afternoon, well spent. But again, we want to thank those of you out there for all your support and your kind letters. My, how we love the letters and your financial support and your prayers. We can’t do it without it. Now that’s all there is to it. All right, we’re going to continue our study, for the third time now, on the various descriptions of the Rock or the Stone of Scripture, which is always Jesus Christ. Not Peter. It’s Jesus. We have to keep that straight. Because there is only one verse that we looked at in the first half hour, where there is a possibility of confusion that it could be Peter. But it isn’t. Again, I always tell people on a lot of these things—even though Scripture may not affirmatively say something, what does the big picture tell us? That’s what we have to learn. What’s the big picture in Scripture? The same way with this Rock and Stone deal when you look at the big picture. How often all through Scripture under various circumstances Jesus Christ is the Rock and the Stone. We’re going to look at the Stone of Judgment this half hour. We’re going to start back in Daniel chapter 2 with Christ as the Stone of Judgment. At the end of days it’ll become a reality. When the final seven years have run their course, and it’s time for His Second Coming, then He will fulfill this symbolic prophecy. All right, Daniel chapter 2 and, again, just for a little background, you want to remember that Daniel was one of the young Israelites taken captive after Nebuchadnezzar’s invasion. The Temple was destroyed, and they were taken captive down into Babylon, present day Iraq in the area of Baghdad. That is why all this is in the news. We’re coming full circle as we’re going to see in a little bit. Daniel was a young Jewish lad and was part of the slave system in the palace of the king. Nebuchadnezzar, of course, as you all remember, had a dream. He had no idea what it meant, but it disturbed him. So that meant it must be serious business. He tried to recover the dream, and, of course, none of his wizards and magicians could do it. But somebody thought about little Daniel down there. So they bring Daniel up, and Daniel not only recovers the dream but interprets it. It becomes, then, the benchmark of prophecy as we understand end-time events. So we’ll drop down to chapter 2 verse 31 as he recovers the dream. We’re going to take the time to read it. Because even though most of you have heard it a dozen times, we know there are a lot people out there in TV who have probably never heard it. Because these things aren’t covered in church in Sunday school, are they? No. I’ve never heard of it. So we’re going to take advantage of our audience out there. Daniel is speaking. Daniel 2:31-32 “Thou, O king, sawest, (in his dream now) and behold a great image. (Or likeness or we would say today a statue.) This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. (Or frightening—for whatever reason) 32. This image’s (Or this statue. Now picture in your mind the statue of a man—probably a military type.) head was of fine gold, his breast and arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass.” Now we’re coming down through the torso. Just picture this in your mind. If I were an artist, I’d love to put it on the board. But I’m not an artist. But you start with the head, and you come down through the torso all the way down to the feet and the toes. Daniel 2:33-34a “His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. (And Daniel says to Nebuchadnezzar,) 34. Thou sawest (Or you watched in this dream) until that a stone (Here it comes now.) was cut out without hands,…” Now, whenever the Bible speaks of something as being done without hands, what does it indicate? Well, it’s a work of God. Whatever it is. Whether it speaks of the Temple up in Heaven that was not built with human hands, or something else. It’s something that was constructed by God Himself. All right, the same way here. Nebuchadnezzar sees a stone. Daniel 2:34b-35a “…which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 35. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together,…” In other words, it starts at the feet. So, you’ve got to put all of this in your mind’s picture now. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible