977 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 1 Book 82 - The Last Message to Daniel - 1

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 82 THE LAST MESSAGE TO DANIEL - 1 Daniel 11:32 - 12:13 Okay, it is good to see everybody in today. Another opportunity to share the Word. And we trust that as we teach, you’re praying and asking that the Spirit will direct us. For those of you out in television, again, we want to welcome you to an informal Bible study. And that’s all we want it to be, is a Bible study, so that you can learn to study and read and enjoy the Bible on your own. And from our letters and phone calls, I think we’re succeeding to a certain degree. All right, we’re going to pick right up where we left off in our last program, which was last taping. For many of you, that’s a few weeks ago. We’re going to drop in where we left off in Daniel chapter 11 verse 32. Let’s finish the chapter rather quickly, because from here to the end of the chapter is an Old Testament preview of the coming Tribulation. And, of course, I think if we have time, if not this afternoon, then in the next four programs, I’m going to make a point of the fact that there’s probably no other subject that is so thoroughly dealt with in Scripture as those final seven years of the Tribulation. A lot of it is so horrible that the scoffers, of course, just think that it’s a bunch of funnies. But, really, it is a coming time. And as we see the world’s whole scenario, the stage is being set for these final seven years. All right, now here we pick them up prophetically, even as we come into a prophetic picture of the anti-Christ in verse 36. But let’s just finish the chapter. Because if I don’t, you know what will happen? They write and say, why didn’t you cover verse 32 to the end of the chapter? I did that with Galatians. I’ll never do that again. But when I skipped the last chapter, I didn’t think that it was that important and I went on into Ephesians. And I’ve had hundreds of letters…why did you skip those verses? So I don’t dare. All right, verse 32: Daniel 11:32-33a “And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: (in other words, smooth talk) but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. 33. And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: (Boy, that’s always the case, you know. If you know something, you can share it with somebody.) they shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword,…” Now, this is all typical of the Tribulation. That as soon as someone professes their faith, they’ll be martyred. They won’t last very long at all. All right, then you go on: Daniel 11:33b-35 “...they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. 34. Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. 35. And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try (or test) them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.” Now, that reminds of a verse back in Jeremiah. I was going to use it anyway a little later on in the afternoon, but it won’t hurt to use it twice. So, go back with me to Jeremiah chapter 30 and we’ll see the same kind of language. Jeremiah chapter 30 verse 6, and I think I’ve got another one that I want to look at in Zechariah chapter 13. Hang on just a second. Yeah. All right, just look at these two portions, again prophesying the horrors of those final seven years, especially the second half of them and especially for the people of Israel. Jeremiah 30:6-7 “Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, (or childbirth labor) and all faces are turned into paleness? 7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble (or Israel), but he shall be saved out of it.” Now, if you’ll jump ahead to Zechariah 13, you have much the same kind of language, only now it’s even more specific. Zechariah chapter 13 and we’ll jump in at verse 8. Zechariah 13:8a “And it shall come to pass,…” Most of you know that we’ve been traveling for the last two weeks. We’ve been speaking to a lot of people. And I’m emphasizing over and over, when this Book says thus saith the LORD, or it shall come to pass, what can we depend on? It’s going to happen! It’s going to happen, even though these prophecies were written back in 400-500 B.C. We’ve now come 2,000 years on this side, and it’s still in the future. We’re closer now, of course, than they were then, but it is going to happen. “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, (That is the land of Israel.) saith the LORD, two parts (or two thirds) therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.” #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible