936 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 4 Book 78 - Part 2 of the Messianic Prophecies Part 4

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LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 78
PART 2 of the MESSIANIC PROPHECIES – PART 4
Psalms 22, 23, and 24
Okay, good to see everybody back for program number four this afternoon. And we’re going to continue on to the next Psalm, which is Psalm 24. But before we look at that, we’re going to look at some verses in the New Testament again, and then we’ll come back.
For those of you joining us on television, again, you know how I like to keep thanking you and praising the Lord for all your prayers, your contributions, and all that goes with it. How we thank you for your encouraging letters that we are getting something done. People are getting interested in what the Book really says.
Now to introduce us to the 24th Psalm, let’s go back to I Peter a moment. Remember, that Peter is writing to Jews just as well as the Psalm is dealing with Jews. A lot of people don’t see that. But there’s nothing in Peter’s epistles that say otherwise, so I’ll maintain that.
I Peter 5:4a
“And when the chief Shepherd (We’ve had the Good Shepherd. We’ve had the Great Shepherd. Now we’ve got the Chief Shepherd.) shall appear,…” That is at His Second Coming. Now you want to remember, that when Peter wrote this little epistle, this is after the work of the cross. This is just shortly before they thought the Tribulation would be coming in. Of course, it’s not too long before Peter and Paul are both taken off the scene.
But here he writes as an Apostle of the Nation of Israel—as he was when he was in Christ’s earthly ministry. But he writes concerning His Second Coming. Peter knows nothing of the Rapture, only His Second Coming. We’ve got the timeline up here, so I’m going to use it.
Here we’ve been coming through all these Old Testament prophets and prophecies. Everything is 99% God dealing with Israel, even as we’re seeing in these Psalms. Then He fulfills those graphic prophecies concerning His first advent—His suffering, His death, His resurrection. He ascended. And then, according to all the Old Testament prophecies and timing and all that, they were expecting, like Peter is writing here, the seven years of Daniel’s seventieth week—or what we call the Tribulation—to come right in. And if these Jewish believers could survive these seven years, they’d go into the Kingdom, because that’s what they were looking for.
Now in reality, looking back, we know that it didn’t happen. God postponed it. He brought in, instead, our Age of Grace. We now feel that we’re right down here toward the end. And again, we’re looking at those seven years as just out in front of the world. But here again, Peter is rehearsing the matter with his fellow-believing Jews—as if all of this is going to be happening within their lifetime. So read it once again.
I Peter 5:4-5a
“And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, (At His Second Coming and He will bring in that 1,000 year reign, or what we call the millennial reign, or the Kingdom.) ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. (Because now it goes into the eternal state.) 5. Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder, Yea, all of you be subject one to another, be clothed with humility:…” And so on and so forth—preparing these Jewish believers for the Tribulation that they felt was right out in front of them.
All right, back up a page, at least in my Bible, to chapter 2. Still in I Peter and verse 25. I just want you to see this constant analogy that the Jew was the sheep and God was the Shepherd. All the way through from the appearance of, especially, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and so forth—it’s that analogy of the sheep and the Shepherd.
And as I pointed out in previous programs, I cannot find that you and I as Gentiles are ever in that category. I cannot find where God looks on us as sheep of His pasture and He is the shepherd. Instead, He’s the Head and we are in the Body—a whole completely different concept. But here in I Peter now, we’re still dealing with the sheep aspect.
I Peter 2:25
“For ye (speaking to his fellow Jews) were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.”
In other words, the Spiritual element is ready for the coming of their King. But you know, I just thought of a verse. On your way back, before we go to Psalms, stop a minute at Luke 15. This is one of my favorite examples of how the majority of Israel saw absolutely no need for a spiritual salvation. And that’s in Luke 15, the Parable of the Lost Sheep. That’s what made me just think of it. You were as sheep going astray. And that’s exactly the parable that Jesus gives in Luke 15 verse 3. And again, I’ll remind you of what I said in the last program. Israel was a pastoral people. Most of them had their own little flocks of sheep and goats.

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