832 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 4 Book 70 - Lo-ammi, Not My People - Part 4

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 70 LO-AMMI - NOT MY PEOPLE – PART 4 Hosea 1:1–2:18 Now again, we’re going to go right back into where we left off. We were in Hosea in chapter 1 the last verse. Jerry’s got chapter 2 verse 1 up on the board, but I want to go back to chapter 1 verse 11 for just a little bit, because I didn’t quite finish my next reference that I wanted to use at the end of the last program. Hosea 1:11 “Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.” Or the day of their joy and restoration, as, of course, the Valley of Megiddo can be a beautiful, beautiful setting. All right, now the key word here that I want to follow up on is, they shall come up and be gathered together and they will be one head, or one nation. All right, come back with me a few pages in your Old Testament to Ezekiel 36 and 37. Let’s look at chapter 36 first, and then we’ll slip right into chapter 37. Again, remember that this is all written about 575 BC. We’re seeing the fulfilling of it right before our eyes. Ezekiel 36 and drop down to verse 24. God says: Ezekiel 36:24 “For I will take you from among the heathen, (That is like we mentioned in the other program, every nation on the planet has had communities of Jews.) and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.” Now, what I can’t comprehend is how even the most biblically illiterate can forget the fact that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. And goodness sakes, where was Bethlehem? In present day Israel. All the Old Testament events that take place, where in the world were they? In Africa? In Europe? In the Orient? No. It all took place in what’s present day Israel. How can people be so ignorant of that? I can’t comprehend it. The last 3,000 years Israel has been associated especially with that little neck of land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. And then they have the slightest idea they have no business being there? If anybody has been there from time immemorial, it’s the Jew. All right and here it is. Even though God took them out and scattered them into every nation under heaven, the same God is going to bring them back. And He has! Miraculously! I have to share with people over and over. Do you realize what a miracle it is that the Jews have even survived as a defined people? My, with just a one tenth of one percent of the world’s population, you’d think they would have been assimilated and simply disappeared. But they didn’t! Here they are. They still practice the old Jewish customs of Passover and Purim, as we looked at in the Book of Esther, and Hanukkah. Well land, that isn’t a phenomenon of the last ten or fifteen years. It goes back centuries. All right, skip over another page to Ezekiel 37 and remember why I came back here. The verse in Hosea said that God will bring them up out of the land and make them under one head. No longer a split nation, they’re going to be one. All right, Ezekiel 37 and let’s drop in at verse 11. This is after the “dry bones.” You all know that one. How the dry bones begin to shake and rattle, and they finally come together, and flesh comes upon them. Well, it’s a picture of the Jew coming out of their captivities, or out of their dispersion rather, from every nation under heaven. All right, now verse 11, and you’d be surprised how few church people understand this. They think it’s anything but what it really is. Ezekiel 37:11 “Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones (in this symbolism) are the whole house of Israel: (Not just ten tribes, not just two, but all twelve) behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.” Because they’ve been out of their homeland for so long. They’ve been without their capital city Jerusalem. And that’s another point. For hundreds of years what has been the cry of the Jew? Next year – what? Jerusalem! Next year, Jerusalem! You remember back in the Six-Day War when the Israeli soldiers finally captured the Temple Mount. I’ve got a picture at home someplace where those young Israeli troops were crying like babies because they were at the Wailing Wall. Something that I imagine their parents and grandparents had told them about, and there they were at the Wailing Wall. Victorious! But, oh, look at verse 12. Ezekiel 37:12 “Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the LORD God; Behold, O my people, (Now remember in Hosea – God said, you are not My people. But now they’ve come full circle and again God can say--) I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.” #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible