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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 59
THE SEVEN JEWISH CHURCHES IN REVELATION
REVELATION 1:1-10
As we were coming up through the Old Testament, and when we got to Daniel, then, of course, Daniel and Revelation just fit together like a hand in a glove.
The four gospels are just an extension of the Old Testament.
Well, that was all back in the Old Testament prophesies. But, unbeknown to Old Testament prophecies, God stopped the time clock after the first advent even though Peter and James and John are still looking forward to everything unfolding, because they don’t know that He had done that. God, in His wisdom, has made the overtures to bring about the Apostle Paul and the Age of Grace, which means the time clock had to stop.
Now, I suppose the best place to show that is in Luke chapter 4. Because the Lord Jesus in His earthly ministry gave us an indication that indeed that prophetic timeline was going to be stopped.
Luke 4:16
Luke 4:17
"And there was delivered unto Him the prophet Isaiah. Luke 4:18
Luke 4:19-21
"To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Isaiah 61:1-2a
"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives (see it’s almost word for word) and the opening of the prisons to those that are bound; 2. To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,…" Now, that’s where He stopped. The middle of the verse - He stopped in the middle of the verse and said this has been fulfilled. Well, read on:
Isaiah 61:2b
"…the day of vengeance of our God;…" Tribulation. Isaiah 61:2c
In the Kingdom. All those prophesies of Psalms chapter 2.
Now, come with me back to Acts chapter 2 and we’ll see the difference between the Creator God’s knowledge of the future and the Apostle Peter. Peter had no concept of anything but the Old Testament prophetic program. Here in Acts chapter 2, Peter is doing the same thing as Jesus did. He’s quoting from an Old Testament prophecy. Now, go back and see how completely Peter follows Joel’s prophecy. Peter was quoting word for word.
Joel 2:28-32
"It shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions: 29. 32. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be delivered, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call." Psalms 2:1-6
(We’re not going to let God rule in the affairs of men. Then look at the response of God in heaven. The Kingdom)
Mt. Zion. No, you can’t find America in prophecy, because America never had any consort with the nation of Israel in antiquity. The only Gentiles you’ll find listed in Scripture are the nations that had a direct contact with the nation of Israel back in Israel’s history. Revelation 1:1a
"The Revelation…" Well, that’s what the book of Revelation is. Revelation 1:1a
"The Revelation (or the revealing) of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly (or quickly, or swiftly, if you want to go back and look up the Greek a little bit,) come to pass;…" All right, now let’s see how Paul also agrees with that. Now, in the preceding verses in chapter 4, and we might as well look at it first, we have Paul’s revealing the Rapture of the Church. 14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,…" Hey, that’s Paul’s Gospel of salvation, which he refers to over and over as My Gospel, that Gospel which I preached to the Gentiles. "…if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep (or have died) in Jesus, God will bring with him." I Thessalonians 4:15-18
18. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
Now, drop into verse 1 of chapter 5. They’ve missed the Rapture, because they have not believed Paul’s Gospel for their salvation.
I Thessalonians 5:1-3
All right, go briefly back to Revelation chapter 1 verse 1, now what does he say?
Revelation 1:1
"The Revelation (or the revealing, or the unveiling) of Jesus Christ which God gave to him, to show unto his servants (now he’s writing to believing Jew, not Gentiles; to believing Jews who had been scattered out of Jerusalem) things which must shortly (or swiftly, or instantly start happening) and he sent and signified it by his angel to his servant John:" So, when we see this word servant here, we’re referring to Jewish believers. John himself is a Jewish believer, he’s writing in turn to these other Jewish believers as we’ve seen in the last little epistles of James, and Peter and John.
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