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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 29
THE MAIN HARVEST
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. God never does things in a mumble-jumble way. "...Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming."
the Body of Christ. Now we never see the Jew in the economy of Law spoken of as being in Christ, because that is strictly a Pauline term. after the firstfruits which took place at Christ's resurrection. In the last lesson we pretty much covered the first fruits and how it was associated with the feast days of Israel, and also in the last lesson we covered the whole scope of God dealing with the Nation of Israel preparing them for the coming of their Messiah, their King, and their Redeemer, Jesus of Nazareth. Remember, God has to have the Nation of Israel in the land, in Jerusalem, in order to fulfill all things, and if that did not happen this whole Book becomes a fallacy."
But now we're going to come on this side of the Cross, and as Christ presented Himself to the Nation of Israel as their King and Redeemer and for the most part the Nation of Israel rejected it. Now we pick that up primarily in the great chapter on Pentecost in Chapter 2. This is just an overview now as we see everything building for God turning from the Nation of Israel to the Gentile world for the purpose then of calling out a people for His name, "The Body of Christ" Here in Acts Chapter 2 Peter is standing up on the day of Pentecost there at the great Temple complex, with thousands upon thousands of Jews having come into Jerusalem from all over the then-known world. And verse 22 says so plainly:
"Ye men of Israel,..."
"Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him, in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:"
What is Peter accusing the Nation of Israel of? Well just because they killed Him that didn't stop God's program, because God raised Him from the dead. Of having rejected their Messiah. "Then Peter said unto them, (the Nation of Israel in response to them having crucified their Messiah) `Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins,...'"
The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers,...'"
All Peter is claiming in verse 15 is that Jesus was the Christ, and they had crucified Him, but God raised Him from the dead, and He could still fulfill all those Old Testament promises because He was alive. "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever,..."
So as they were stoning Stephen in verse 59:
Now Chapter 8, and verse 1.
Come on over to Chapter 9, and everything up to this point in time has been God dealing with His Covenant people. Everything up through the Old Testament with just a few exceptions was directed exclusively to the Nation of Israel. But beginning with Chapter 9 there is a parting of the ways in God's program for the human race. For the first time now He's going to deviate from that whole concept of Jew only, Jew only, Jew only. And now He's going to make this tremendous statement to Saul of Tarsus, that he is a chosen vessel to proclaim the name of Christ to the Gentiles. So let's begin with verse 13:
Remember Saul was the chief persecutor and he was going to stamp out anybody who has embraced Jesus of Nazareth as Israel's Messiah. I was reading in one of the Jewish magazines where an evangelist and an old Jewish rabbi were arguing the point of Jesus's Messiah-ship. It's going to be the counterfeit Messiah, the Anti-christ. Now back to Ananias in verse 15. And if you haven't caught it before, mark this verse down, where Ananias now in Damascus is being spoken to by the Lord Jesus from Heaven and He says:
Acts 9:15
Now coming back to Chapter 9 for just a moment we find God sovereignly putting a fork in the road, and now He's going to send this man, Saul of Tarsus, far hence to the Gentiles. God said to Ananias:
Acts 9:16
That Jesus was the Christ and was the Son of God, the Messiah of Israel. So now what does God have to do? God can't let him go on with that. You know God does things in mysterious ways, doesn't He?
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