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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 35
DOCTRINE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS
History, you see, is simply God's Sovereign control of the events in time. For so long chronologers assumed that Christ was born at what we call 0, and that in 4000 BC Adam was created. AD comes from the two Latin words Anno Domini. Now thanks to the powers that be and archeology etc., they've got to get Christ out of the picture one way or another so they've changed these nomenclatures from BC (Before Christ) to BCE (Before Common Era.) I told one of our guides in Israel one time, "You know, it's amazing what people will do just to push God out of the picture." Our normal approach to these things will still be BC and AD.
So that means at about 2400 BC the flood took place. As a result we have the appearance of the Nation of Israel, the Jew. That covers everything then from Genesis chapter 12 until we go into the Book of Acts chapter 8. God at that time is dealing with Jew only with a few exceptions. So everything from Genesis chapter 12 and the Abrahamic Covenant to Acts chapter 8 is dealing with the Nation of Israel, giving them the Law and the Temple, with the idea that one day God would funnel them back in that filthy, ungodly river of humanity, and bring them a knowledge of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Of course we know that it didn't work because Israel didn't believe it, but at least God offered it to the Nation of Israel.
Now on our timeline then we go from 2000 BC (from the call of Abraham) to 1500 BC and we have Moses - and Moses gives Israel the Law. Then, 1000 BC brings about the appearance of King David, and Solomon, his son. Solomon builds the first Temple, and that is all within a few years of 1000 BC. Then we can go all the way to the birth of Christ at 4 BC and then we have the Cross of Christ and that took place at 29 AD.
Now Solomon's Temple, or the first Temple, was a glorious one. Then the next real important thing on our timeline is at about 606 BC in history or about 400 years after the Temple was built. Nebucchadnezzar comes into Jerusalem and the Babylonian Empire destroys the Temple and Jerusalem, and Israel goes into captivity, and you know about the Babylonian captivity.
Now turn in your Bible if you will to Acts chapter 2. Now if you don't know history then this don't make much sense, but if you realize that the Jews from 606 BC had now been migrating all over the then known world. Jews and synagogues. Then another important reason I use 606 BC is because Jesus spoke of it as the beginning of the time of the Gentiles. Since Nebuchadnezzar'sg overthrow of Jerusalem the Nation of Israel has been under one Gentile power after another. We have in about 400 BC, the restored Temple built by Ezra and Nehemiah. That Temple then in turn was destroyed in 70 AD by the Roman general Titus, and at that time the Jews were once again sent out into a complete dispersion. A few stayed in Jerusalem and the areas of Israel, but for the most part the Jews were once again sent out into every nation under Heaven. That all took place in 70 AD.
Now God is going to do something totally different and on our timeline I usually mark it like this (Church Age) It's the out-calling of the Body of Christ which we call the Church Age. Now since this is all a Pauline revelation and has nothing to do with Old Testament prophecy, it has nothing to do with Christ and His earthly ministry and the Nation of Israel, so consequently I feel it has to be taken out of the way before God can pick up with the Nation of Israel and bring about that final seven years of the Tribulation and the appearance of the Anti-christ. So Paul becomes the apostle to the Gentiles, he becomes the spokesman for God now during this age of Grace, the Church Age. It's so obvious that God was only dealing with the Nation of Israel until we get to Paul.
Most of it is really written to the Nation of Israel. So let's just look at Leviticus chapter 5.
Leviticus 5:2
Leviticus 5:6
My goodness if I had to go to the Temple in Jerusalem every time I touched a dead animal I'd be spending most of my time on overseas flights. Matthew 15:24 & Romans 15:8 tell us that Jesus came only to the Nation of Israel. God hadn't forgotten about the Gentiles, but it just wasn't time for the apostle Paul to come on the scene for us. God is an orderly God and never mixed Law and Grace.
Mark 16:15-18
So here is where it becomes so appropriate to recognize that the apostle Paul is the Gentile apostle. Come back to Romans chapter 15:4.
Romans 15:4
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