843 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 3 Book 71 - Alas the day of the Lord is at hand - 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 71 ALAS, THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND - 3 Joel 1:1-15 Okay, good to see everybody in this afternoon. Again, for those of you joining us on television, we would just like to invite you to an informal Bible study. That’s why we’ve got coffee cups and what have you. We just want to be like a home Bible study where we can just fellowship together and learn to search the Scriptures. That’s all I can beg people – just search the Scriptures! If you haven’t got a good study Bible, go out and buy one. That’d be the best money you’ve ever spent. Okay, we’re spending the afternoon on what Joel said way back in the Old Testament, 800 years before Christ, when he used the term “the day of the LORD.” The day of the LORD is that last seven years of time before Christ returns and sets up His Kingdom. Okay, as we are looking now at “the day of the LORD,” we’ve been coming up through the Old Testament a few portions. Now I’m going to jump into the New. Come with me to Matthew 24 and, oh, these are the words of the Lord Jesus Himself toward the end of His earthly ministry. The Twelve are getting curious. How is all this going to come to an end? They understood that He was going to be bringing in the Kingdom. But as yet in Matthew 24, they don’t know He’s going to be crucified and die, but they do realize that there’s an end to this human program that had started – well, at their point in time – 4,000 years before, and now it’s 6,000 years since Adam. All right Matthew 24 and we’ll start at verse 1. Matthew 24:1 “And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple.” Which, you’ve got to understand, the Temple wasn’t just one little building. It was a whole complex. It involved a lot of various activities. In fact, I think a lot of the apartments of the priests and so forth were involved in that Temple complex. Matthew 24:2 “And Jesus said unto them, see ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Which of course happened when the Romans came in A.D. 70, forty years later. The Romans literally took the Temple down, stone by stone. Matthew 24:3-4 “And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples (the Twelve, nobody else) came unto him privately, (In other words, no press of crowds or anything like that.) saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and the end of the Age? 4. And Jesus answered and said unto them, (Now, here He begins unfolding the events that will roll through those seven years of Tribulation. And the first warning was--) Take heed that no man deceive you.” Be not deceived. So, that tells us that verse 5 is already happening. Matthew 24:5 “For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; (or the Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed) and shall deceive many.” Now, I just made the comment, I hope I didn’t confuse you. These are all things that will take place as soon as the Tribulation or the day of the LORD begins. It’s going to be a tremendous outpouring of satanic deception, but we’re seeing the beginnings of it. You remember, I think in my last taping I mentioned this. I know I did in several of the seminars around the country. You remember when the Pharisees and the Sadducees taunted Jesus about end-time events and so forth, and what was Jesus’ response? Oh, He said, “you hypocrites, you can look at the sky and predict tomorrow’s weather, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.” Well, I’ve been using that for the last twelve months or so as I travel to wake people up. What are the signs of the times, the signs that the end is near? Well, the number one sign for us today is the return of Israel to the land. That is the number one sign of the times! Because we know that you can have no end-time prophecy until Israel is back in the land. So there you are. The same way here, Jesus is warning the Twelve that there’s going to be coming a time of deception like the human race has never seen before. Now again, remember what we showed on the timeline, that all these prophecies were going to come one right after the other. Even after Christ is crucified and He’s raised from the dead, He’ll go back to Glory. Then in would come the day of the LORD, those final seven years, and then Christ would return and yet set up the Kingdom. I guess we’ve got it up there on the board, that’s the Old Testament line of prophecy. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible