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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 29
I CORINTHIANS 15:20-23 - PART 2
God gave Abraham the Abrahamic Covenant, called him out of idolatry and promised him a separated nation which would be Holy, and would come under the Covenant promises. That's why we call Israel the favored nation, or God's chosen people, because in His sovereignty that's the way He ordained it. Abraham wasn't saved by offering sacrifices. He was saved by being obedient to what God said. Let's look at Chapter 49. Here in Isaiah 49 is where this whole concept of Israel becoming a nation of priests is what God had on His mind. Isaiah 49 and let's go to verse 6. Remember what we read in Exodus - that "if" they are obedient with the Law or Covenant that God is now giving them at Mt. Sinai, then they would be a nation of priests, a holy nation, and they would be used of God sometime down the road to funnel salvation into the Gentile world.
Isaiah 49:6
Gentiles,....'"
Those Gentiles had nothing to do with his God. But it was his God Who told him to go. Yes, God can save Gentiles when He wants to. But the mind-set of the Jew was that God had no time for those pagan dogs. Mark 7:27,28
"But Jesus said unto her, `Let the children (Israel, the Jews) first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.' Now, as you see in Isaiah, God's whole intent and purpose was that Israel as a kingdom of priests, would at one time go and evangelize those Gentiles. Isaiah 2:1,2
Kingdom! Once Israel's Messiah would come and set up His throne, His kingdom, there in the city of Jerusalem, all the nations of the world would just navigate and would be brought just about like a magnet drawing steel, to Jerusalem. Zechariah 8:20-23
"Thus saith the Lord of hosts; `It shall yet come to pass, (sound familiar? Yea, many people and strong nations (plural) shall come to seek the Lord of hosts (where?) in Jerusalem, (where He has set up His throne and His kingdom) and to pray before the Lord.' Israel blew it, as we say. But that doesn't take away the fact that God is still intending to use the Nation of Israel to yet bring salvation to the Gentiles. All we're talking about is God dealing with Israel and at one point in time God wanted to funnel them back into this pagan, polluted stream of humanity and thereby purify it. Remember Christ went up and down the land of Israel, all that territory between the Mediterranean and the Jordan Valley for three years. Can you find one place in Scripture where He ever went outside the land of Israel? Let's go over to Matthew Chapter 10. Where do you get that He just came to the Nation of Israel?" Matthew 10:5,6
Matthew 15:24
"But he (Jesus) answered and said, `I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.'"
"Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision (Jews) for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:"
Because all the way up since Abraham's Covenant, God is dealing only with the His Covenant people, Israel, in the promise of making them a nation of people; in the promise of putting them in their geographical promised land and then one day coming to be their King and their Messiah. Paul has been going to the Gentiles and he's seeing them saved by grace. Ephesians 2:11,12
Ordinary human beings) who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; (In plain language, who called the Gentiles uncircumcised? The Jews did. This whole period of time during the Old Testament when Israel is under the Covenant promises and God is dealing only with His Covenant people, with exceptions. Gentiles had no rights from Israel. They were Gentiles or aliens. Israel had the Covenants, but could the Gentiles say, "Hey, that's for me"? No, that wasn't for a Gentile. Because God was dealing with Covenant promises and it was only for the Nation of Israel until she should be such a prepared spiritual, obedient people and then what would God do? He would send them into the Gentile world and they could then bring the Gentiles to a knowledge of their God. But what did Israel do? Now come down to verse 17 of Chapter 22. Gentile! Satan does, and all you have to do is look back at history and how Satan has constantly fought God's dealings with the Nation of Israel. Every thing that comes about in the Nation of Israel in their unbelief, in their attacks from the Gentile world, just anything, who prompts it? Well it is the satanic ploy still trying to get rid of the Nation of Israel, because if Satan can succeed in getting rid of the Jew then God can't perform his prophecies. What does the world do with all these promise God made to that little nation? Jeremiah 31:35-37

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