929 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 1 Book 78 - Part 1 of the Messianic Prophecies Part 1

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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 78
PART 1 of the MESSIANIC PROPHECIES - 1
Psalms 2, 8, and 16
As most of you know, this is just an informal Bible study. I’m not a preacher. I’m not an evangelist. But I do like to pick the Scriptures apart and, specifically, as we’re going to show now in these next several programs, show how intrinsically all of this Book fits from cover-to-cover. What’s in the Old concealed is in the New revealed and visa versa. So this is what we’re going to be doing as we open with this series of the Messianic Psalms. We’re going to be looking at 16 different chapters throughout the Book of Psalms that all vividly foretell the death, burial, and resurrection of the Messiah. That’s why we call them the Messianic Psalms.
Again, I want to thank our television audience for all of your prayers. What a thrill that wherever Iris and I go, the word we hear over and over is, we pray for you every day. I think what’s made this program what it is, are the prayers of the saints. And we do thank you, and, of course, for the financial help, as well; because we do have to pay the bills. And I will never ever ask for money. That was one of the first things we got straight with the TV guys when we first started taping about 18 years ago. I told them at that time—I will never ask for money. And I was ready to go home if that didn’t fly. But we haven’t had to, and we trust we never will.
We’re going to start with something that Peter says in his little epistle, and then we’ll go back to Psalms. But look up I Peter chapter 1. We’re going to start with verse 10, because what I want to show is in verse 11.
I Peter 1:10
“Of which salvation the prophets (Old Testament writers) have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come (sometime up into the future) unto you:”
Now again, I’m going to stop a moment. Always take our rule of thumb for Bible study. What’s the first question we ask? Who’s writing? What’s the second one? To whom? The third one? The circumstances? The fourth one? Well, what’s gone before? The fifth one? What follows? All right, so right here is a good example. Who is writing? Peter. Who is he writing to? Jews. He’s not writing to the Gentile body of Christ. In no way, shape, or form is he doing that. He’s writing to Jews who are still associated with the Kingdom program. They were saved by the Kingdom gospel, which was completely different than the Gospel of Grace. They were looking forward to the Kingdom coming soon. With that in mind, then, Peter is writing to Jews in view of the coming Kingdom, which they thought was just down the road.
These Jews didn’t have any idea there was going to be a 2,000 year hiatus, where God would be calling out the Body of Christ in this Age of Grace that you and I are enjoying today. And remember, the only way you can get into the Body of Christ is by believing Paul’s Gospel of I Corinthians 15:1-4. Now verse 11:
I Peter 1:11a
“Searching (Now remember, who’s doing the searching? Those prophets as they wrote.) what, or what manner of time (the when) the Spirit of Christ who was in them did signify,…” Now this is all just “double-speak” to show that every word of Scripture was inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Whether it was Peter or Paul or Isaiah or Moses makes no difference. It’s all the Word of God by virtue of the Holy Spirit’s inspiration. All right, so they were trying to figure out what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that’s within did signify. Did He put a specific time-frame on it that they could look for? No. It was left, as Paul calls it, a mystery, a secret.
I Peter 1:11b
“…what manner of time the Sprit of Christ which was in them did signify, when he testified beforehand (Before any of it every happened. Now here’s what I want you to home in on.) the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.” I’m going to put it on the board. Even though you probably can’t read my writing, it’s going to be better than nothing.
Maybe at break time Sharon can come up here and redo it for me. But we’re going to be speaking of the suffering of Christ and then the glory. The glory that would what? Follow. In other words, come after. And the biggest part of understanding Scripture, even for us in the Age of Grace, is that all of the Old Testament writers, in one way or another, were speaking of the sufferings of Christ. But it wouldn’t end there. There would be glory that should follow.
And I’ve referred to this more than once over the years. How in the world could one Messiah be both? How could they have a suffering Messiah and also a ruling King for a Messiah? Well, you remember, I’ve shared that at times they would say, there must have been two Messiahs prophesied.

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