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LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 66
BUT GOD! (Confirming the promises) – Part 2
MATTHEW 16:15 – But whom say ye that I am?
It is good to see everybody once again. You had a good long break that time, so those of you in the studio can be turning back to where we left off in Genesis chapter 3 verse 15. For those of you joining us on television, again, we just can’t thank you enough for your prayers, your kind letters, and your financial help. All we can say is we thank you from the depths of our heart and ask you to pray with us that the Lord will just continue to reach out to hungry hearts, because the world is hungry for the Word of God. They don’t know what they’re hungry for until they get a taste of it, and then they can latch onto it.
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Okay, we'll keep right on where we’ve been. We’ve got a lot to cover, and time goes so fast. Go back with me to chapter 3 of Genesis, and remember how we kicked off in our last program from Matthew 16, where Jesus confronts the Twelve just shortly before going up to Jerusalem and the crucifixion. He asks them who the children of Israel really think He is. You remember the answer? Some thought he was John the Baptist, some thought Elijah, Jeremiah, or one of the other prophets. Then Jesus came back and said, "But whom do you say that I am." Peter’s answer was, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God." Not who died for us and rose from the dead. That’s not in there. All Peter knows is that He was the Messiah, the Promised One through the Old Testament, and that He was who He said He was.
All right, so now what we’re doing is coming back and picking up what Paul referred to in the verse we used in the last half-hour, in Romans 15 verse 8. You remember when he said, "That Jesus Christ was the minister of the circumcision for the truth of God to (What?) fulfill (or bring to fruition) all the promises made unto the fathers (of the Old Testament)." All right, so that’s what we’re doing now. We are going to look at a few of the references that, no doubt, Peter had an understanding of when he could now claim, without a shadow of a doubt, that this was indeed that promised Messiah. Remember that that’s the heart of the Gospel of the Kingdom, to believe who He was.
All right, we were in Genesis chapter 3 when we ended our last program. The verse that almost anyone who has any understanding of the Scriptures knows, where Jesus is dealing with Satan and He makes the statement, "I will put enmity (or a constant confrontation) between you and the woman." Now, as I said in the last program, that’s always been kind of a tough nut to crack. I’ve always left it with the physical "woman," and the various trials and tribulations that women have, especially in child bearing, which, of course, is alluded to in the next verse. I ordinarily do not do this when I teach. If I can’t be positive, I usually don’t say anything. But I had one of my listeners write some time ago, and he threw something out at me that I’ve never had anybody refer to before. He said, "Les, could it be that the woman in Genesis 3:15 is the Nation of Israel?"
And you know it just tickled my funny bone. Yeah! That makes sense. Now, I’m not setting that in concrete. Don’t go out and tell everybody this is what Les Feldick said. It’s just something that you can think about, and as you look at all the rest of Scripture, what other segment of all of the human race has had more confrontation with Satan and satanic powers than the Nation of Israel?
Even right now, today, as we speak, what is Satan trying to do? Destroy the Nation of Israel in any which way he can. Whether it’s through boycotting their goods from Europe, whether it’s the Arab world saying we’re going to drive them into the sea, or whether it’s the United Nations out of all their prejudices against Israel never having a single resolution in favor of Israel. Never a single one! It’s always against them. So, here’s my food for thought. Just run it by your thinking as you consider Scripture. Is this what God was already referring to?
Because for the next 2000 years there’s not much that really happens, spiritually speaking. It’s a sorry scenario all the way from the expulsion up to the flood. Then we have the Tower of Babel until we get to the call of Abraham.
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