150 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 2 - Book 13 - "Who Goes into the Kingdom"

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LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 13
FIRST RESURRECTION - "WHO GOES INTO KINGDOM:"
GENTILE BELIEVERS
Revelation 20
Let's turn to I Corinthians Chapter 15. Last lesson we were talking about the two resurrections. We have the resurrection of the just which will happen before the reign and rule of Christ, and the resurrection of the unjust which will come after the thousand year reign and rule of Christ. So before we go back to the firstfruits in Leviticus, let's look again at the Resurrection Chapter in I Corinthians and read these verses we looked at last lesson:
I Corinthians 15:20-22
"But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits (plural) of them that slept (or died)." For since by man (Adam) came death, by man (Christ) came also the resurrection of the dead." For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive (the Power of God will resurrect the believer, and also later will resurrect the lost)."
The Grace Age Believers, The Body of Christ. You and I as believers.
The first one was the Feast of Passover, then Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the third one is the Feast of the Firstfruits. The Feast of Firstfruits came about the time of barley harvest. Leviticus 23:10
"Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:"
So what we have here is not just a picture of a grain harvest, but of a spiritual harvest. Remember when Jesus was in His earthly ministry, He used this analogy to His disciples. He told them, "Look out unto the fields, they are white unto harvest." He wasn't talking about wheat or barley. Mankind was ready for a harvesting of a spiritual sort. I remember when I first came to Oklahoma and was teaching. Matthew 27:50
So here Christ is indeed on the Cross.
Matthew 27:51,52
Matthew 27:53
"And came out of the graves after his resurrection,..."
The Scripture is silent and so we have to assume that Christ in His resurrected body ascended into heaven, then these saints did also. That makes them "The sheaf of the firstfruits." Now let's look at Leviticus in Chapter 19. Keep this harvest analogy in your mind. The Lord says, "The fields are white unto harvest, but the laborer are few." Now imagine a forty acre field, and they have taken out the firstfruits of the grain as we read about in the Book of Leviticus Chapter 23. Christ has been resurrected from the dead. Leviticus 19:9
"And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly (or completely) reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest." Why? Leviticus 19:10
:And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God."
So even in Israel there were relatively few true believers. There has been your main harvest. The main harvest would be the Church. And when I speak of the Church I'm talking about the Body of Christ that the Apostle Paul refers to. Remember we still have the corners left, and we still have the gleanings. Daniel 12:11:
Daniel 12:11
Daniel 12:12
For a total of 75 extra days between the return of Christ and the end of the Tribulation. Daniel 12:13
1. We have Christ and the firstfruits back at the time of His Resurrection. 3. Then you will have a multitude of people who will be saved during the Tribulation period. But they won't be in number like the Church Age. The field has has been swept clean. All the believers of all the ages, from Adam to the end of the Tribulation. Revelation 20:6
That in verse 4, it sounds like just Tribulation people will reign and rule with Christ, and I was glad that someone caught that. Come back to Revelation Chapter 5, and here we have a verse that I would say includes all of us believers in verse 10.
Revelation 5:10
"And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and (what) we (an all inclusive word) shall reign on the earth (with Christ)." We can also look at Chapter 19 verse 7:
Revelation 19:7
Revelation 19:8
"And to her was granted that she (the Body of Christ, the Church) should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints."
Go over to verse 14 in this same Chapter. Revelation 19:14
Since we are talking about the Church Age believer in the Kingdom as this Kingdom will come on earth, come back to the Book of Colossians. Here in this passage Paul has been praying for the Colossi Gentile believers.
Colossians 1:12
the kingdom of his dear Son:"
We are already members of the Kingdom. But always remember, where is the Kingdom tonight? In heaven, in the Person of Christ. "The Kingdom of heaven is at hand." Why? Part and Parcel of that Kingdom."

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