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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 29
I CORINTHIANS 15:20-23
Genesis 15:13
Genesis 15:16a
Daniel 9:24
Daniel 9:26
Now there is nothing in the Old Testament prophecy or otherwise that connects Israel to the Church, which is His Body. There is not a word in the Old Testament of some 1900 + years where God is calling out predominately Gentiles. Psalms 2:1-6
Israel demanded it, so they were in it together.) Then (After having rejected the Messiah) shall he (God) speak unto them(that is the nations of the world as well as Israel) in his wrath, (Here's the prophecy concerning the final 7 years of Tribulation) and vex them in his sore displeasure. Now there is your timeline in a nutshell for Old Testament prophecy. Then in total rebellion of what God had said to scatter and to re-populate the planet, they gather at the Tower of Babel under a man called Nimrod. Now there at Babel they were under total rebellion against God's authority, and remember the tower was never intended to take brick and stone all the way to Heaven, but rather it was a place of religion whereby they could literally usurp the throne of God religiously.
The Tower of Babel. One of the big highlights in the Old Testament economy was the Tower of Babel and how God scattered them. Then another 200 years went by and once again God does something totally different. He pulls out of this mainstream of humanity, this man Abraham, and He brings about the Nation of Israel. By an act of a sovereign God, this didn't happen accidentally. But God sovereignly pulls out of the mainstream of humanity, the man Abram, as he was first called, and He promises him the Nation of Israel. Some will write and say, "Where did the Nation of Israel begin?" Now Abraham was not a Jew. Now, Israel, according to the promises of God, was to be a nation that God would prepare and use. Genesis 12:1
"Now the Lord (Jehovah) had said (back in Chapter 11) unto Abram, `Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:'"
Joshua 24:1,2
"And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. And Joshua said unto all the people, `Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor; and they (all of them. Abraham, Terah, Nachor) served (what?) other gods (small `g').'"
Idolaters! Abram was raised in idolatry. Now when God spoke to him (and Stephen in Acts Chapter 7, gives us the impression that God visibly, appeared unto Abraham, that Abraham saw God in physical form, and God, or The Lord as we refer to Him now, told Abraham what you see back in Genesis 12), He told him to get away from his country, his kinfolk, and from his father's house. Why? Separate yourself from these false religions. Let's look at verse 2 and here comes the Abrahamic Covenant.
Genesis 12:2a
"And I will make of thee a great nation,...."
Genesis 12:2b,3
Now turn the page a little bit if you will and let's look at verse 14 of Chapter 13. Not only would they be a nation of people but now God's going to have to put them in a geographical area of land. If they're going to be a nation of people that God is going to work through, they have to be in their own borders.
Genesis 13:14
Genesis 13:15
So now, let's look at verse 1 of Chapter 46.
Genesis 46:1,2
"And Israel (Jacob) took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba (just south of Jerusalem about 70 or 80 miles), and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. And God spake unto Israel (Jacob) in the visions of the night, and said, `Jacob, Jacob'. Genesis 46:3
"And he said, `I am God, the God of thy father; fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:'"
Now let's look at Exodus Chapter 19. Time has gone by, another 215 years and now Moses has led the children of Israel out of Egypt. Exodus 19:5
Now what does that do with the Nation of Israel? It lifts them out of that mainstream of humanity and puts them into that place of covenant relationship as God's favored, chosen people. That God intended this little nation of people to be a particular people of value that he could use to reach all those pagans. God is sovereign. Exodus 19:6
So every Jew was to be a prepared person to be a go-between some day down the road between the pagan world around them and Israel's God.) and an holy (or set apart) nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel."
Now most people can't understand that this is the purpose of Israel.

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