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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 60
MAKING CHOICES
ISAIAH 1:1-2:2
Just get into the Book. As I mentioned in the last taping, we intend to do a study in the book of Isaiah because it’s a tremendous book of prophecy. We’ll be starting in Isaiah chapter 1. What was the setting concerning the children of Israel? Remember, Isaiah is writing about 700 BC. All right, from Abraham until Israel has the Law and Moses was about 500 years. So you can say that from 2000 to 1500 BC was that period of time when Israel became a nation. Well then, as you know the account, Israel wanted a king like everybody else. So, now, about half-way between Abraham and Christ’s first advent, Israel has their first king; King Saul. Then after 40 years with King Saul, Israel got the promised king, David. Israel, after all the glory of Solomon’s kingdom, and by virtue of being divided now into the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom consists of ten tribes in the North and two tribes in the South. All right, here’s the setting now of Isaiah. It’s also looking forward to another great demise of Israel, which would be after they’ve crucified the Christ and the Romans came in and destroyed the Temple and Israel was disbursed. All right, we’re going to start in Isaiah chapter 1 and don’t forget the time element. It is 700 years before Christ. Isaiah is prophesying in the Southern Kingdom, he’s got all the advantages of the Temple worship and everything else.
Again, history can pretty much nail down the time at which King Uzziah ruled and reigned in Jerusalem.
Now, here begins Isaiah’s controversy with the nation of Israel.
Now remember, that term LORD in the Old Testament, with all four letters in capitalization, is Jehovah; the primary name of God concerning Israel in the Old Testament economy.
Isaiah 1:2b
Now, verse 3 is a classic verse. Isaiah 1:3a
Isaiah 1:3b
"…my people (Israel) doeth not consider." Now, remember, the "My people" here is Israel. We’re not talking about the Church. There is not one iota of reference anywhere in the Old Testament concerning the New Testament Church. The closest you can come is when Amos prophecies that God will call out a people for His name, which of course was a reference to the, I think, "the calling out of the Body of Christ."
It was a secret held in the mind of God. Jump up to Jeremiah chapter 8, and remember what we just read. Jeremiah is also a prophet writing and concerning himself with Judah, but he’s a few years later than Isaiah. Even though Isaiah dies before the Babylonian captivity, Jeremiah is still alive. Jeremiah 8:7
"Yea the stork (the bird) in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people (Israel) know not the judgment of the LORD." See, this is why I love to compare Scripture with Scripture. Isaiah says, "the ox knows his master’s crib." All right, so it isn’t just Israel. I think it’s almost a perfect parallel between Israel in the Old Testament and America since her inception. Now, compare this with what we just read in Isaiah and Jeremiah
I Corinthians 2:7
"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, (or a secret. That’s the other word for mystery) even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world to our glory." All right, let’s move on over to Ephesians chapter 3, and now we have another account from the pen of the Apostle Paul of why there is absolutely no mention of the Church, this Age of Grace, in the Old Testament, and we might as well cover it right up front. Ephesians chapter 3, we’ll read several verses starting at verse 1, probably down through verse 9. Ephesians 3:1a
Ephesians 3:1
"For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles." Not Israel. He’s the Apostle of the Gentiles, (Romans 11:13) like Isaiah was a prophet of Israel. Like Peter and the Eleven were Apostles of Israel, this man is the Apostle of the Gentiles.
"If ye have heard…" Choices! Nations make them. Ephesians 3:2
"I’ve never thought about it."
We were talking about God sending lost people to the eternal lake of fire. Never forget that. All right, back to Ephesians chapter 3, that this dispensation of the Grace of God, which is given to Paul to us, now verse 3.
Ephesians 3:3
"How that by revelation (a revealing from His place in Glory) he made known unto me (the Apostle Paul) the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, 4. Now, verse 5. Ephesians 3:5
Now remember, Paul is speaking of those prophets and apostles who associated with his ministry, not the Twelve or any of the prophets of Israel. Ephesians 3:6-9
Now, here it is again) which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, (the same God) who created all things by Jesus Christ:"
All right, Colossians chapter 1 beginning at verse 24.
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