975 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 3 Book 82 - Tribulation Prophecy - 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 82 TRIBULATION PROPHECY - 3 Daniel 9:25 – 11:31 Okay, good to see you all back from coffee break. We’ll begin program number 3 this afternoon, and we’re going to go back where we left off in the last program. I didn’t really get an opportunity to finish it like I should have. Fortunately, someone came up during the break and said, “Well, you’ve got to explain what the Gospel of the Kingdom is.” All right, let’s go back and do that. We don’t want to leave any loose ends. So go back with me to Matthew chapter 9. We’re still going to go back to Daniel, don’t worry. We’re not out of there for good. But come back with me to Matthew chapter 9 where we just left the end of our last program, just to qualify terminology. Matthew 9:35 “And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, (That is of the Nation of Israel.) teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, (and along with that, of course--) and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.” All right, now then, go to chapter 10 verses 5 and 6 and you’ll see where they were to take this Gospel of the Kingdom. And always remember, you all know it, I know you do. What’s the definition of Gospel? Good News! You all know that. All right, so it’s the good news of the what? The Kingdom—that glorious heaven on earth that is coming at the end of the Tribulation and over which Christ will rule and reign. All right, that was the Good News. But in order to appropriate that Good News, what were the children of Israel to believe? Who this Jesus was. That’s all God was asking Israel to believe, that He was the promised Messiah. That was their Gospel. That was the very heart of Kingdom Gospel. Today, under Paul’s epistles and the Gospel of Grace, we must believe that Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and rose again. Now of course, along with the Gospel of the Kingdom they still had Temple worship. They still kept the Law. They knew nothing of the freedoms and the liberties that we have under Grace. But, that was the Good News of the Kingdom, that the King was in their midst. But they had to believe who He was in order to appropriate it. All right, but it was limited to Israel as we see now in Matthew 10 verses 5 and 6. Matthew 10:5-6 “These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, (Now, that’s as plain as English can make it.) and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: (Because they were half-breeds. They weren’t full blood Jews. And then here’s the cap of it all.) 6. But go rather (instead of the Gentiles and Samaritans) go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” And that is limited to Jew only. All right, now then, to come to the very heart, like I said a moment ago, of the Gospel, turn over to Matthew 16 and we get Peter’s confession of faith. Peter is saved by this Kingdom Gospel. This is his confession. Matthew 16 and again we like to start at verse 13. We’ve done it hundreds of times over the years, but we’ll do it again. Matthew 16:13-16 “When Jesus came into the borders of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 14. And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. 15. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16. And Simon Peter answered and said, (Now here’s his profession of faith of the Kingdom Gospel.) Thou art the Christ, (the Messiah) the Son of the living God.” Period. Not a word about faith in the crucifixion, not a word about death, not a word about shed blood, not a word about resurrection, only that He was the Christ. All right, now for sake of comparison, I have to do this every time. Here is the Gospel that we are proclaiming in this Age of Grace. The Kingdom Gospel passed off during the Book of Acts, and now we’re left with only one. I don’t know where people get the idea that I’m proclaiming two Gospels. But, oh, I get it all the time. Where do you get that we’re under two Gospels? You don’t hear me right! That’s all I can say. The Kingdom Gospel passed off the scene in the Book of Acts. I can’t name the date and the month, but somewhere back there in the Book of Acts it fell through the cracks. Israel rejected everything and we’re left with this Gospel of the Grace of God, which is now I Corinthians 15, plus many other portions. But this one in particular says it all. I Corinthians 15:1-4 and it’s amazing. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again—it’s amazing how most tracts, books, and sermons never mention it. I can’t understand it. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible