893 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 1 Book 75 - Connecting the Dots of Scripture - Part 17

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 75 CONNECTING THE DOTS OF SCRIPTURE – PART 17 Genesis – Revelation Okay, good to see everybody in on this beautiful day in Oklahoma. For those of you out in television, again, we just love to invite you to sit down and study with us. I, hopefully, don’t preach at you, but once in awhile it almost gets close, doesn’t it? Anyway, we attempt to just teach the Book and help folks to read it and understand it on their own. I think we’re making headway. My goodness, according to the mail we get, it’s really encouraging that folks are beginning to enjoy their own Bible. We’re going to pick right up where we left off in our last taping. We finished in Acts chapter 3, so I’m going to start with the last couple of verses in Acts chapter 3 and then move on. “Connecting the Dots”is the title Jerry has given it. We started at Genesis and that’s just what we’re doing. We’re connecting the dots. I always like to let people be assured and be confident that this Book is true. It is the Word of God, and it’s the only Word of God. For that reason, we like to show how everything fits. So in Acts chapter 3, let’s review a little bit of how Peter is ending up his second message after Pentecost. As I’ve been emphasizing, it’s still all Jewish. Everything is still concerned with the temple and all the covenant promises made to Israel. Hopefully, we’re going to point out a few things that I’ve even neglected to see before. Not that I didn’t see it, but I just didn’t think it was important enough to bring it to the top. But we’re going to look at that in a little bit. Now, Peter is ending up his second message after Pentecost. Already a few weeks have probably gone by, maybe even a few months. Look again at what he says in verses 24, 25, and 26. Then we’ll move on. Acts 3:24 “Yea, and all the prophets, (Well, now if you’re a Bible student, what’s he referring to? The Old Testament.) from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold (Or prophesied—of what days?) of these days.” Now you remember, oh, my goodness, how long ago has it been? I had some statements on the screen? If you’re going to be a Bible student, the first thing you do is what? Determine who is writing. Then what? Luther, you know them. What is he writing? To whom is he writing? When is it written? What are the circumstances? What went before? What follows after? What’s Peter talking about here when he says, “Samuel and those that follow after have spoken of these days”? Ours? No, theirs. Where Israel was at that point in history, and it was shortly after the crucifixion. Fifty days later we had Pentecost. That’s where we were in our last taping. Now we’re some months beyond Pentecost, but it’s still all part of that prophetic end-time so far as the Old Testament was concerned. Maybe I should have him flip the board and show the time line, but I won’t. We’ll do it in our next program. We’ll just use an imaginary line on the board. Here we’re coming from the Old Testament, past the crucifixion, His ascension, Pentecost, and we find Israel. A lot of them are responding; as we’re going to see in a little bit, but percentage-wise for the whole nation, just a few. But nevertheless, the emphasis has been that God is winding up prophetic statements of the Old Testament. The end is in view. All they’re going to have to do is go past the Tribulation and Christ would return and in would come that Kingdom. They had no idea of a two thousand year church age. Don’t ever think, well, what about this truth. No, they didn’t know that. They were thinking everything was just going to come right down the way the prophets had foretold in the Old Testament. That’s why he said “in these last days”. See what a difference one word can make? Now verse 25, he is addressing the nation of Israel. Acts 3:25a “Ye are the children of the (What again?) prophets,…” They were the ones to whom all the Old Testament prophets wrote. Well, like you said, where do you start? Samuel. Who’s the next great prophet? David, and then Solomon got his words in with Ecclesiastes and so forth. Then you start the Major Prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. Then those twelve Minor Prophets: all of them writing pretty much on the same level—prophesying this glorious, earthly Kingdom that God’s going to give to Israel. So, all of the word from Samuel until we get to where Peter is today is how Israel was being admonished to look for this glorious King and His Kingdom. But from our vantage point, they rejected it. So that whole program had to be laid aside. And God, as we’re going to see before the afternoon is over, brought up the other dispensation through the Apostle Paul, which we call the Age of Grace. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible