In this Bible Study Sunday, I walk through the fifth week of our Dispensations series, focusing on the Patriarchal (Promise) dispensation with Abraham at the center. We trace the “crowns” of the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven, explore Abraham’s unconditional covenant of grace, and unpack why the land promise—from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates—has been history’s most contested ground. I also contrast Premillennial, Postmillennial, and Amillennial positions, explain how those views shape modern theology and geopolitics, and connect Abraham’s faith to New Testament salvation—clarifying imputed righteousness (Genesis 15/Romans 4) versus justification (James 2/Genesis 22). We finish with key truths about sacrifice, the priesthood, and why the kingdom only comes with the King, encouraging listeners to trust Christ and walk by faith, even when it means walking alone.
Resources mentioned include numerous Scripture references across Isaiah 41, Genesis 15 & 22, Romans 4, James 2, Hebrews 10, and others, to help you study Abraham’s covenant, the land promise, and the doctrine of salvation in more depth.
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(00:02:16) Cold open: poetry fragments and setup
(00:03:48) Welcome from Asylum Studios and show intro
(00:05:10) Bible Study Sunday kickoff and recent show recap
(00:06:39) Series review: tracing dispensations and the crowns
(00:08:15) From Babel to the patriarchs: shifting to Abraham
(00:09:32) Unconditional covenant with Abraham vs. works covenants
(00:12:46) Kingdom of heaven vs. kingdom of God preview
(00:14:54) Scope of the patriarchal dispensation: Abraham to Exodus
(00:16:37) Isaiah 41 and Abraham as ruler—crown and covenant
(00:21:46) Romans 4 reading: faith, grace, and imputed righteousness
(00:26:40) East to West: biblical patterns and historical asides
(00:29:24) Called out by faith: separating for God despite cost
(00:32:00) Covenant of grace and the struggle with Satan
(00:32:39) Genesis 15: land promise from Nile to Euphrates
(00:36:20) Losing and regaining the land: Solomon and the future
(00:38:42) Millennial views: premillennial, postmillennial, amillennial
(00:42:05) Kingdom without the King? Critique of man-centered plans
(00:46:37) Replacement theology and who owns the land
(00:49:32) Quoting Catholic sources and the Balfour context
(00:51:33) Why attack Israel? Seed, crown, and dominion conflict
(00:55:47) Temporary loss, future fertility, and the Dead Sea changed
(00:57:32) Abraham’s two-stage salvation: imputation and justification
(00:59:31) James 2 vs. Romans 4: audience and reconciliation
(01:02:36) Testing faith: Isaac on the altar and the acid test
(01:08:43) Genesis 22: walking alone, faith in resurrection
(01:14:07) Truths about sacrifice: from types to fulfillment
(01:17:52) Invitation and prayer: receiving the offering of Christ
(01:20:04) Closing notes, church info, and week-ahead schedule
(01:25:02) Final sign-off and farewell
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That's an interesting twist. Mhmm. Transmitting live from the asylum studios deep in the bowels of Southwest Texas. It's the Joe Ruge Show, the show where we talk about anything and everything. Where nothing is sacred, nothing is watered down, and nothing is PC. Alrighty. Hey, folks. This is Joe Ruse, and it is great to be with you once again as we open up and study the precious word of God, your King James Bible. And you know, folks, as always, whenever and wherever you find yourselves watching or listening to us, it's always, always, always my prayer that you also find yourself in the grace and in the mercy of our Lord and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And of course, we are transmitting to you live once again at the Asylum Studios from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass.
Folks, welcome to Bible Study Sunday on the Joe Ruse show. Alrighty. Hope you guys had a good weekend so far. It is, Sunday as as we've said. Fourteen zero five hours on the 11/16/2025. And, it's been a busy busy few days here at the asylum. We took off Friday night. We didn't do a show Friday night, but we did a show yesterday. We had an 11AM show with with, DePaul Fleming. So I hope you guys were able to catch that. That was a really good show. I enjoyed that immensely. We had a great conversation. Super guy. Super guy. Really good guy to talk to. A lot of fun. He and, you know, he'd said something at the very, very start of the show, that he felt like he had me off of my game, and he kinda did in a little bit of a way. Not in a negative way, but, I wasn't expecting the, the, the the sarcasm that came through, you know, so so quickly into the show. So I I was kinda caught off guard by that, but you know what? We recovered, and, we got a couple of good ones in there. I did get him to admit that I am the greatest podcaster there is. So just wanted to throw that back out there in case he's watching, you know, it didn't go unnoticed. And of course, I don't believe that at all. I know I'm far from anything good, so I'm not, you know, you know, if you're watching this, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel, folks.
That's just the way it is. But that's okay, you know. We got we got a loyal little group that, that likes to check us out and tune in, so it's always fun to have, the folks watching. So it's it's blessing, it's great, And, again, here we are. Now it's Sunday, and we're gonna be getting into our, our bible study here in just a couple of minutes. But, you know, what we've been doing over the last, four weeks now, this is week five already, as we've been studying the dispensations. And when you do a study like this one, it it really does help to review, every now and then. You know, it kinda helps to get things, I guess, you know, coordinated in your mind as to where we've been and and where we're going. And what we've been doing is we've been studying major events in each dispensation. So we've been going from the the plan here is to go from Genesis to Revelation, through the entire bible dispensationally.
So we're not doing chapter by chapter, verse by verse, or anything like that, but we're doing it dispensationally. Alright? And, dispensationally speaking, we're talking about the plan of salvation in each dispensation. And, for the last few weeks, we've been following the crown. We found out that, after Adam fell, the crown of the kingdom of God went back to him who gave it. And, it abides in heaven from that time, and going on through. And, we'll see it come back and offer to mankind, but but we haven't got there yet. Alright? And we've also been following the crown of the kingdom of heaven. Now Adam had it, and he lost it. And God appointed a new king, a man by the name of Noah. He gave him dominion over the earth, and he lost it.
And he lost it by partaking of the forbidden fruit, just like Adam did. And then we studied a little bit about the Tower Of Babel, and, and all the events that took place there, and God dispersed man throughout the earth. And then, and now we're coming into a a new dispensation. The dispensation of the patriarchs. I know yesterday on the show, I I mentioned we would get into the law, but actually, I I wanted to to kinda touch on this, at this point, and we'll get into the law starting next week. But, this is a this is a dispensation of the patriarchs. This is the dispensation of of the family, or, you can call it the dispensation of promise. And it's been called all of those things.
All of those things are synonymous terms as far as, this particular dispensation is concerned. And, in some ways, it it really is a continuation of the previous dispensation, but I I decided to kinda to to add this, dispensational line because there really are some distinct, differences, particularly when it comes to the business of tracing the crown. Now as you trace the crown, that that is, god given dominion over the earth. Alright? And and that's really one of the the the best ways you can really understand, dispensational truth. Alright? Now, before we get into the rest of the bible study for today, I'm gonna ask you to do a couple of quick things for us. Just have first of all, head over to our website.
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Alright. Now, still got the little cough going, but doing better. Feeling a, an awful lot better. So, t n e energy. We already covered that. Right? Alright. Sorry. I'm might stop my little marker up here. Alright. Now, we've talked very briefly about the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God. And in about four weeks, we're gonna really really start getting into that. When we hit the end of the law, which is like I said, it can take about four, maybe five weeks to get through. When we hit the end of the law, and you see John the Baptist arriving on the scene, and and then Jesus Christ follows close behind, we'll see two messages that are preached and two kingdoms that are being offered.
Now at that time, we'll distinguish between the two with with a lot more detail than what we have been kinda dipping out there over the last couple of weeks. And you can only distinguish between those kingdoms if you really understand your bible. You'll have you'll just have problems. You'll have problems until you get those two things straight. The book of Matthew talks about the kingdom of heaven. As a matter of fact, it's really the only book that talks about it, and, and it's it's peculiarly different from any other book in your bible.
You know, if, if you try to build church age theology on the book of Matthew, you are barking up the wrong tree folks. You are barking you will have problems. The reason why is because it's a kingdom book. Alright? It's a book essentially written about how Jesus was offering the kingdom of heaven, a physical kingdom to the Jews. Now, now now that kingdom came about with their founding father Abraham. Alright? And then they lost it down the road. So they got it with their founding father Abraham, and then they lost it. And we'll see that we'll see about that in a couple of weeks, how how they eventually did lose it. And it's being offered to them once again when you get to the message of John the Baptist, and he says what? He says, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Alright? That's down the road. Alright? That's down the road. Now we're gonna we're gonna concern ourselves right now with primarily Abraham. Alright? The dispensation follows from the call of Abraham to the Exodus. Alright? That's what this dispensation covers, from the fall of Abraham to the Exodus. Alright? So so it it goes beyond Abraham. Alright? It go it goes it goes to Isaac. It goes to Jacob, and it goes to his sons, and it goes to Joseph, and it and it and it leads on as Israel goes down into Egypt and is taken into bondage. It goes right up until the time when God calls Moses to be the deliverer.
But for today, we're gonna concern ourselves primarily with with one man, and that man is Abraham. He is the focal point of this particular dispensation. Now this particular dispensation wasn't a very long one, it's only about a period about four hundred thirty years. So, but but a lot of a lot of things have taken place in that four hundred thirty year period. Now, we we wanna entertain three different things here, really, in in this particular study, in this particular dispensation, and as we study Abraham. Alright. Now, the first thing that we wanna talk about is his crown.
Alright. Was this man, in fact, a king? Alright. Did God give this man some kind of a crown, or the same kind of crown that he gave Noah and Adam? Well, first of all, Abraham is called the friend of God over in James chapter two verse 23 and in Isaiah forty one eight. Alright. So let's go over there. Let's go to, Isaiah chapter 41. Isaiah chapter 41. And, so if you have your bible, your trusty your handy dandy sword here, your your two edged sword, go to the book of Psalms, middle of your bible, and you go go through Proverbs, and you're gonna go through the song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, song of Solomon, and then you're gonna go into Isaiah.
Alright? Isaiah chapter 41. Isaiah chapter 41. Joe, why do you say it so much? Well, to give you time to get there. That's why. If I jump too far ahead, you're gonna get lost. Alright. Isaiah chapter 41, and we're gonna start, I think, in verse one. Right? Isaiah 41 and verse number one. Let's put it up on the screen here. Alright. Keep silence before me, oh islands, and let the people renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let us come near together to judgment. Who raised up the righteous man from the East? Alright. Now, Abraham came from the East. Okay? He came from Ur of the Chaldees.
That's where he came from. Called him to his foot, gave him gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings. He gave them as the dust to his sword and as driven stubble to his bow. He pursued them. Alright? And that's exactly what he did, in rescuing a lot, and you could read read about that over in the book of Genesis, and passed safely even by the way that he had not gone with his feet. Alright? So so so God says here that this righteous man came from the East, he gave him nations, and made him to rule over kings. Alright? Now what we see taking place here is something a little bit different than what we saw with Adam and Noah, and that is that God gave Abraham a covenant as he gave as he gave Adam and as he gave Noah, but it's a little different.
It was it it's built on an entirely different basis. Alright? Noah was given a covenant that was contingent upon works. Alright? Adam was given a covenant, and it was a con and it was contingent upon works. Alright? Abraham was given a covenant, and it was built on grace. Grace. Now that's a that's a vast difference. That's a vast difference. God said, Abraham, I'm gonna do this for you. Period. End of the story. I'm gonna do this for you. End of the story. It wasn't, I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna do this for you if you do such and such, or if you do thus and thus, I'm gonna do this and that for you. So it's called by theologians, and sometimes they use this.
Sometimes, you know, sometimes the I get frustrated with them sometimes, you know. Sometimes theologians use these really long words to really try to impress you, you know. But but the theologians, if you went to the seminaries, or you went to Bible school, they they would call it an unconditional covenant. Alright? An unconditional covenant, and that's what it was. There were no conditions attached to it. That's why when you get over to Romans chapter four, Abraham is used in type, as and as an example of our salvation.
Alright? You get over to Galatians, he's in in a sense tied to our salvation in illustration, because Abraham was a recipient of grace. Alright? He lived in an age of grace in the respect that he lived before the law. You know, Abraham wasn't under the umbrella of the law because the law hadn't come into effect yet. The only law that that was there was the same law that Adam lived under, that Enoch lived under, and Noah lived under, and that was the law of conscience. And we talked about that into some detail. And we see that that law is present all the way through to Moses, and yet God came and he made an unconditional covenant with Abraham.
That's why Abraham in Romans four is tied so closely and linked so closely with the New Testament Christian. Because you see, when you and I trusted Jesus Christ as our savior, we entered into an unconditional covenant. Isn't that right? God didn't say, I'll save you if you do thus and thus. God said, I'll save you. Period. All you have to do is ask me, and trust me, and call upon my name. That's all there is to it. That's all there is. And he gives the gift of eternal life. Alright. Well, Abraham Abraham entered into an unconditional covenant.
You know, as a matter of fact, you know, it it I don't I I think we have time. Right? Turn with me over to Romans. Romans, let's get a little bit of background. So we're gonna go to your New Testament. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans. Fourth book of your New Testament, Romans chapter four. Romans in chapter four, and we're gonna read several several verses here. Okay? Romans chapter four. And we're gonna start here in verse number one. Alright. What shall we say then? That Abraham, our father, as pertaining to the flesh, have found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.
For what sayeth the scripture? Abraham believed Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh, and it is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom god imputed righteousness without works, saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also?
For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Well, how was it then reckoned? When he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. And the father of circumcision to them, who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had yet being circum uncircumcised.
For which he had yet for which he had being yet uncircumcised. For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Alright? That's a lot. But here, the apostle Paul writes specifically to some some Jewish Christians in Rome. Alright? Although, he wrote to the Roman church, which was a composite of all people, but what he's trying to do is he's trying to illustrate to them that Abraham became a Jew. You see, Abraham was a gentile. Alright? There there wasn't any such thing as a Jew before Abraham.
Abraham was out of Shem, so he was he he was just another Shemite. And remember we talked about the we talked about the the sons of the sons of Noah, and how they dispersed. But Abraham was just another Shemite. God called him out. He called him out of the Ur of the Chaldees, and he said, now now you come out, and I'm gonna make of thee a great nation. Now, when God called him, he wasn't a Jew. Alright? The sign of the Jew was circumcision, but he wasn't circumcised then. Therefore, he was an uncircumcised gentile, and that's the point that God is getting across in Romans chapter four. Well, in this condition, God made him the father of us all.
You know, Jewish people like to say, Abraham our father. Well, Paul says, in a sense, Abraham is the father of us all. Alright? Well, in what sense? In the sense that he walked with God by faith. That's how. Alright? That's how. You know, God called him out, and he and he said, and he said, I'll walk with you by faith. The whole life of Abraham, if you if you study it, the whole life of Abraham is characterized by faith, and that's why he's called the friend of God. Remember remember Jesus said this, Jesus said, you are no longer servants, you are my friends.
The relationship of anyone who walks by faith with God is that of a friend. And so, and so he he called him out, and he responded. Now, it's it's interesting for us to notice that that at about this time when God called Abraham out of the East, and, you know, and it's interesting to notice that he went from east to west. Alright? East to west, that's the blessed direction in your bible. Alright? And and it's just amazing what you can learn from a Bible, by the way. You know, when Adam was cast out of the garden, he was cast out of the East Gate. Right? He went from west to east.
West to east. Alright? And that's the cursed direction. When God called Moses, when God called Moses and Israel back in back into Palestine, he had them go up on the East Side Of Israel, so that they could cross Jordan going from the East to the West. Alright. Did you ever study military campaigns? It's interesting. It really it it really is interesting. I find this stuff fascinating. Napoleon. Napoleon went East, and it finished him. Alright? Hitler decided to go East into Russia, finished him. Did you ever study that? I mean, think about this. Isn't it amazing the things that you could find in an old fashioned, out of date, archaic Bible?
Isn't that something? Isn't that something? Are you familiar with the Battle of Gettysburg? You know, the American Civil War, the war between the states, the war of Northern aggression. The South was winning the war until they decided to flank the Northern army on the West and go East. It's amazing what's in your Bible folks. I I I am never ceased to be I never ceased to be amazed at what is in this book. Never ceased to amaze me, never does. Well, let's not be like the Pharisees when Jesus said, you do greatly not knowing the scriptures. Alright?
Now, Abraham's father was an idolater, and he called him out. And I'm sure he paid a certain price for leaving, but ultimately God rewarded him. You know what happens to a lot of folks? And you you see this all the time. You get saved, God calls you out. You got saved, God called you out of a religion of idolatry. And you know, sometimes folks have second thoughts. Sometimes you may wonder, you know, if you're a babe in Christ, you know, if if you if you you might wonder, did you really make the right decision? Is it really worth it? Because oftentimes, problems come up within your family, within the people closest to you, when you make that decision. But I I promise you, I assure you that God will reward you accordingly.
Man will never reward you, but God certainly will. God will take care of it in due time. Alright? So we're linked to Abraham, and we're linked to Abraham in several ways. In fact, we're linked to Abraham in the fact that that he responded to faith, in the fact that he responded to the call of God. We're linked to Abraham in the fact that he left his family, his friends, and and he and and he forsook all to walk with God and be a friend of God. Now I am absolutely not suggesting that God always calls upon you to forsake your family, your friends, and and and every and everything else. But folks, if it comes down to a choice if it comes to a choice, and look, I know many families, many families that have had to make this choice because, you know, their family basically forced them to make this choice. If if it if it comes to a choice where where they say, you either take us, or you take Jesus. Let me tell you something folks, take Jesus.
Take Jesus. If that's what it comes down to, I hope it don't. I I really I I hope it never does. I don't want it to, but but but if that's what it comes down to, that's what you ought to do. You take Jesus. A lot of folks have done it before you. A lot of folks have done it before you. I guarantee you that even though they may have paid a price, God is gonna take care of them. God is gonna take care of them. You can count on that. You count on that. Alright? So so this king, Abraham, was installed in an unconditional covenant of grace. Alright? Now now isn't that a picture of our salvation?
Eternal security. My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto them eternal life. You know, Satan had Adam, no contest. You know why? Because it was a conditional covenant based upon works. Noah, a conditional covenant based on works. Boom. Done. That quick. No contest. For that guy, that devil, Satan, is more subtle than any beast of the field, which the Lord God hath made. No contents for that that that that beast that's wiser than Daniel. No contest for the god of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the angel of light. No contest.
But all of a sudden, there's a covenant of grace, unconditional. All of a sudden, the issue becomes far more complicated. And studying the second point, the property that God promised this king under this unconditional covenant, you know, we we can begin to see and begin to focus on the events of the history of the world. And and and and and, you know, we can begin to get at least a little idea, a little understanding of why so many of the things that have taken place have taken place. Alright. Take your Bibles. Turn with me over to Genesis chapter 15. Genesis chapter 15.
Alright. Genesis chapter 15, and we're gonna go to verse, 13. So Genesis let's go back to the front of your bible, first book of your bible. First book of Moses, by the way. Genesis chapter 15. You know, you do know that Moses wrote the first five books of your Bible. Right? Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Moses wrote them. Alright. Genesis chapter 15 and, verse 13. Genesis 15 verse 13. And he said unto Abram, know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years. Alright. So God's already prophesying Egyptian bondage. You see that? And verse 14, and also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge, and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, thou shalt be buried in the good old age. But on the fourth generation, they shall come hither again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. And it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. In the same day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram saying unto saying, unto thy seed have I given this land from the River Of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates. Alright. Now that's what God promised. That's what God promised.
Verse 19. The Kenites, the the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jeb all the ites. What got so what God promised Abraham and his seed as he came from the East, the chunk of ground that God promised his, God that God promised is, promised him is virtually an equilateral triangle of a thousand miles on each side. Alright? So you got from the Nile River, the river of Egypt, to the river Euphrates, clear up to Mount Ararat, where where Noah and his boys got out of the boat. And now, and interestingly enough, and just coincidentally, coincidentally, interestingly enough and coincidentally enough, that piece of ground for four thousand years has been the most fought over piece of ground than any other piece of real estate on the face of the Earth.
There have been more military campaigns waged on that piece of ground than all the rest of the world put together. That is the bloodiest chunk of real estate that you can ever imagine. I wonder why. I wonder why. Well, God promised that piece of ground. And and and you see, in in in owning that piece of real estate, the unconditional covenant amounts to this. Whoever possesses that piece of real estate will ultimately possess the crown of the kingdom of heaven. Whoever possesses that piece of land will control the earth. Now the the closest that we've ever seen Israel come to possessing that that piece of ground was during the reign of Solomon.
And, and and we, you know, we'll see when we advance in our studies into the law, we'll see that if if Solomon had been faithful, and stayed away from the foreign wives, their foreign gods, if he had been faithful, then the kingdom of heaven would have been ushered in on a permanent basis. But because of that unfaithfulness, it was lost for a while. Alright. Now you're sitting here saying, wait a second. I thought you said this was an unconditional covenant. It is an unconditional covenant. That's why the loss is only temporary. That's why Israel will someday regain that piece of ground.
I mean, what they own now is is is is a very, very small portion of it. Very, very small. They're gonna own all that God promised them, and consequently that piece of ground becomes the focal point for all the political activities of the world. I mean isn't it interesting? Is it just think about it. Isn't it interesting that the great concern of of of this time, that we recognize as the last days, is the Middle East? Isn't it interesting how all of the real oil reserves are all in The Middle East? Do do you suppose that's all of a coincidence? Well, the spot picked for Abraham's earthly, literal, physical kingdom turns out to be the major battleground for this planet.
And this piece of ground was picked deliberately by God to stand right smack in the middle of of three continents, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Right smack in the middle of three continents. It's called the crossroads of the world. You can imagine that that little piece of ground is gonna become a bloody piece of ground. And you can imagine that anyone that doesn't accept the word of God to be the literal word of God is gonna have problems with an unconditional covenant that God promised Abraham. Alright, now let let me get a little bigoted here for a minute. Let me get a little prejudiced, and and talk about some other people's religion. I mean, after all, you know I never like to do that.
I don't like to do that. Alright. Let let let me bring up let me bring you up to date on what's going on. Alright. Some of you are probably aware of these things, if you're paying attention. For some of you, this might be a new revelation. I don't know. But, you know, the majority of the major denominations in the world today that call themselves Christians, subscribe to what we call Amillennialism. Alright? Southern Baptist Convention officially subscribes to Amillennialism. Alright. The Roman Catholic Church officially subscribes to Amillennialism. The Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church, Episcopal Church. In fact, you you could see the the majority of denominations all subscribe to Amillennialism.
Alright. Now, alright, Joe what well, what's Amillennialism? What does that mean? Alright. Get your pen and paper, here we go. This is study time. There are three basic views about the millennium. Alright? Now the millennium is when Jesus Christ is gonna return for a thousand years. He's gonna literally rule and reign from Jerusalem, and rule the world. Alright? Now the Bibles the Bible has a has a lot to say. In fact, has a great deal to say about that particular time period. Alright? Now, there there were three ideas approaching the millennium. Alright? One is, pre millennial return of Christ. Now, listen, if you if you are a real bible literalist, you are a pre millennialist.
I am a pre I am a pre millennialist. Alright? And that means this, that means that you believe that Jesus is going to literally return, and he will literally set up a literal kingdom, and he will literally rule from Jerusalem for a literal one thousand years, exactly like the Bible says. Alright? Now there are a few of what we call post millennialists. Alright. There are a few of them left. There's not many, but there's a few of them left. World War two kind of wiped them out, but, a post millennial a post millennialist says that the millennium is gonna be ushered in without Christ, and he's gonna come at the conclusion of it. Alright?
That that's just insanity. Alright? That's all that is. That's just insanity. Now, an an amillennialist says that Christ will never bring in the kingdom, that man is gonna bring in the kingdom. And all of the hundreds of passages of scripture that deal with the subject of Jesus literally returning are all symbolic language. Therefore, they are treated from a symbolic viewpoint. Alright. Over in the book of Revelation, in one chapter, in just one chapter, God God says a thousand years, a thousand years, a thousand years. He says it six times in one chapter, six times.
Now, if you engage in amillennialism, theology, your emphasis is placed upon man, not God. Your emphasis in your church, and and your and your program is is all focused on bringing in the kingdom instead of the salvation of of individual personal souls. A bible literalist says, man is not qualified to bring in the kingdom. For man has had one, two, three, four, five, six, that, 10 thou hundreds of opportunities in every time, every single time, he's failed. Every time. We certainly are bringing in the kingdom with our society, aren't we? The kingdom is characterized in the Bible by peace and prosperity.
There's never been a major politician in the world that's run for any office that didn't promise peace and prosperity. I mean, that's what everybody wants. Donald Trump says he wants to be the peace president. Right? He wants to usher in the golden age of America. Peace and prosperity. Everybody wants a piece of the kingdom. It was offered to the Jews when Jesus showed up, and they wanted the kingdom too. The only thing about it was, they didn't want to fulfill the necessary prerequisites to get the kingdom, and those prerequisites dealt with the issue of morality and righteousness.
Hence, John the Baptist, the pre the the predecessor of Jesus preaching the message of repentance. He declared, repent of your sin and turn from your wickedness. Then after you repent, then you can have the kingdom. You know, man today is is making the conscious effort to bring in the kingdom. You know, let's have one world government. World economic forum, world health organization, and all of those dystopian type paragovernment organizations. One world government, think of the United Nations. You know, let's all get together. Let's have a one world religion.
Let's have peace, let's have prosperity. What's that one world religion gonna be? I don't know. Some people say it's gonna be a a conglomeration of of of Christianity and Islam, they call it chrislam. Some people think it's the it's gonna be one of those new age religions. You know, Gaia, Mother Earth, and all that stuff. Let's have peace. Let's have prosperity. Let's have all of these things, and when the Antichrist shows up, and gives what he what seems to be legitimate, and and and reasonable answers to the problems that man has, then the world is gonna clamor to him.
But that too will fail. That too will fall apart. Right? Now the reason why religion puts its emphasis on man and puts the emphasis on bringing in the kingdom himself and establishing the kingdom is because as long as the emphasis is there, the emphasis doesn't have to be on Christ. Did you catch that? Do you understand that? And as long as we keep the emphasis of Jesus Christ, then we could avoid righteousness, morality, and goodness, and we can remain in our sin, in our lust, in our wickedness. Alright? Now, that is the bottom line of it, folks. Some of the most wicked people on earth are religious people.
And as long as we can stay busy bringing them the kingdom but you see folks, the kingdom isn't gonna come in without the king. When the king shows up, then we'll have the kingdom. Alright. Let me just give you an example. I know I'm picking on people. I know. I know. It's just something that that just gets in me sometimes. Sometimes I just can't help it. It just kinda overwhelms me. You know? You know, when I when I, you know, when I sit down and I write these outlines, you know, sometimes it's like an invisible force that just takes my hand. You know. I don't know what to say. I I don't but but I found this I found this one. This was good.
And, and, I said, you know, I I shouldn't put it in, but the flesh prevailed, and I did. Alright. Let me pull this up here so I can read it. Alright. So so the Roman Catholic church, is the classic example of Amillennial theology. Alright? There's there's no Amillennialist on the face of the earth that will say that the land the the land that God promised Abraham literally belongs to the Jews. Alright? They will not say that. You will never hear an amillennialist say that. They can't afford to say that because it is inconsistent with their theology.
Alright? The the amillennialist says the kingdom has come, and the kingdom has been delivered to the Jews and is now passed. You know you know, it's it's it's ancient history. It's it's it's it's forever forgotten, and now it's the church, whatever that is. That's the qualified candidate to receive the kingdom, and therefore, there are churches, whether it's, you know, from Catholicism to Southern Baptist to to, you know, British Israelitism or Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Christian Scientists, you know, whatever. And and as you examine their theology, the whole thing revolves around this. What they're trying to do is steal Israel's earthly promises from trying to steal Israel's earthly promises from Israel, and claim those promises for themselves.
That's what's going on. Alright? Now just as an example, you know, I I didn't I didn't take time to to to to track down, and I'm I'm really not, you know, particularly picking on the Catholics. I could have picked statements from the Southern Baptist or, convention or Jehovah's witnesses or a lot of other people, you know, they all essentially say the same thing. But, you know, Catholics, are the majority. You see a lot of, Catholicism, you know, increasing, people, you know, being more open about the Catholic faith. So, let's pick on them for a little while. Alright? Let's let the pope speak for himself.
Alright. So what I'm gonna read to you is, these these words were taken from the, Roman Catholic publication called the tablet. Alright. I'm gonna let them do their own preaching. Alright? I'm gonna quote. Now this isn't the current pope. This is from from some time back. Alright? The the speaker is, is is, Melkite, archbishop archbishop Gregorius Hakan of Saint John Of Aca, after returning from Rome and talking with Pope Pius the, thirteenth twelfth. I'm sorry. Twelfth. Here's what he said. And it and it wasn't just stated verbally, it was actually written down in this official Catholic publication.
Quote, his holiness asked me to convey his great satisfaction and joy of the unity and the full collaboration showed by the Arabs of Palestine in protecting the Holy Land. The pope has studied a protest against the Balfour declaration. Now, if you're unfamiliar with the Balfour declaration is, the Balfour declaration, was a declaration in Britain in 1917 that granted, by the old league of nations, that granted, the the land area of Palestine back to the Jews. Alright? So that's what that's about. He said, the pope has studied a protest against the Balfour declaration made by his predecessor, Pope Pius the eleventh. The policy of the Holy See toward this declaration has not changed. His holiness the pope cannot afford to help Zionism against the Arabs of Palestine. The pope told me that he would not fail to support the Arabs because they are the owners of the Holy Land. Alright. So that's the official documented policy of the Roman Catholic church toward Israel, and it has not changed since that statement was made.
Alright? They have officially said that that, the land belongs to the Arabs. But is that what God said? Is that what God said? There isn't anybody in this world that wants Israel back in that land except a handful of Bible believing Christians and Jews. I wonder why. I I I did you ever wonder why? You see, at one point, the, the the satanic attack was against a man. But all of a sudden, the attack is no longer focused on a man, but upon his seed. All of the generations that follow. Why? Because the promise, the unconditional covenant of the crown that was promised to his seed.
That's why. Did you ever wonder why Israel was taken into Egyptian bondage for four hundred years? Did you ever wonder why all of the years of ancient history and even modern history, Israel as a nation has been attacked and persecuted? You know, why is antisemitism so rampant around the world? Why is it that Hitler exterminated 6,000,000 Jewish people? Why is it that Ferdinand and and and Isabella were so convinced by a Roman Catholic archbishop to expel all Jews from their country? Why is it that you could go back through the dark ages and see how the Jews were hunted down and killed in cold blood and tortured as much as bible believing Christians were? Why is it that for all these years, there's they they've been a a a hunted and an attacked people because the attack is no longer focused upon a man, but upon a seed.
The battle is who's gonna run who. The battle is who's going to wear the crown. The battle is who is going to have dominion over the Earth. The battle revolves around Lucifer because he once had dominion and he lost it. And ever since, he's been trying to regain it. And he has periodically, from time to time, because of default. Alright? Now now the pope, the southern baptists, the the, the Presbyterians might be, right, might be amillennialists, but the devil ain't, and he isn't either. He's not. He knows what God's got in mind for that chunk of land over there. He knows what's gonna come out of Zion.
He knows who God has planned to reign in Jerusalem. So so so so you can expect, as the last days continue, you can expect the attacks to intensify. Everything that you're seeing right now is all according to plan. None of this should take anybody who knows their Bible, studies their Bible, understands their Bible by surprise. You could expect wars to get more and more frequent. You can expect the threats against Israel to become more and more and more all the time. You can expect what the Bible says about Russia moving closer and closer. In fact, during the tribulation, she'll be posed to literally crush Israel, and and God will send natural phenomena to literally destroy the armies of Russia.
It is amazing what you learn from your Bible. Well again, the Bible can save save the day, although many willing many aren't willing to pay attention to it. Because folks, you know, here here is the owner of the land. The giver of the land. Receiver of the land. The title deed to the land. You know, I've given you a lot of scripture to look up, as as we as we've gone through these studies. And I hope I hope you've been writing these things down, so you can look look them up, you know, on your own, on at your leisure, and find out exactly how you can know that this ground is promised to the seed of Abraham, not just past present, not just past, but but future. And someday someday they're gonna realize those promises.
And to say that that that that the Arabs own that land isn't just it's not biblical. It is not that the land was not given to Ishmael, the Arabian. God himself takes sides against Gad, the Arabian in Nehemiah chapter six in verse one, and chapter four and verse seven, when when when he appears to be, when he appears professing to be the chosen seed to whom the promises were made. I mean, do do you realize the implications of what I just said? The implications of what I just said is that that every Turk, Muslim, Arabian, European Crusader who died in the Crusades died needlessly.
Needlessly. Do you know what the Crusades were all about? The Crusades were all about the the the the the the take the land away from those Christ rejecting Jews, and and so in the name of religion, off they went. Millions died. Millions, and and that's how it happens. Alright? So so out goes Abraham into a land that God promised to him and to his seed. Alright? Now we're gonna see under the law, this covenant had two aspects to it. It had an unconditional aspect, and, because it was unconditional in one respect in one aspect, it'll be and eventually, it'll be realized. It'll come to pass whether anybody likes it or not.
Then it was conditional in another aspect in that the land was lost to the Jew temporarily. Temporarily. And again, what he now controls is nothing compared to what he will control. And interestingly enough, this will be the fertile crescent of the world. During the millennium, it will be the most fertile piece of ground on the face of the earth. It will blossom as a rose in the desert, and what you're seeing taking place right now over there is nothing. Nothing. God will take care of it. Do you know what God's gonna do? Now I don't really have time to go through the word of God and show it to you, but but God's gonna change the Dead Sea into a sea of fresh water.
You know, we'll get into some of this stuff when we get into the study of Revelation and millennium, period of time, and and and all that, but but God's gonna take the Dead Sea and turn it into a sea of fresh water. A sea of fresh water instead of dead water. Alright? Now let's look lastly at Abraham's salvation. Alright? Now Abraham lived, like we said, in an age of grace, but it but it's not exactly the grace that our grace is simply because Jesus Christ had not yet been to the excuse me, has not yet been to the cross. So so, you know, the price hadn't been completely paid.
So his salvation was, even though it was a salvation of grace, a and a salvation of faith, it was in two parts. Okay? It was in two it was a two part salvation. Alright. Take your Bible and go with me over to, Genesis chapter 15. Genesis chapter 15. We're we're still in the, front of your Bible. And Genesis chapter 15. Sorry. I thought I muted that. Genesis chapter 15 and verse five. Alright. Genesis 15 verse five. Here we go. And he brought him forth abroad and said, look now toward heaven, and tell the stars if thou be able to number them. And he said unto him, so shall thy seed be.
And he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness. Alright. When you get over to, Romans chapter four that we read a little while ago, that's called imputed righteousness. It's called imputed righteousness. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, David said. Alright. Now, the word impute, what does that mean? Well, it the word impute literally means to put upon. Alright? God will not put sin upon a man if he has believed on the Lord by faith. Alright. So he has imputed righteousness. He got his imputed righteousness when he believed.
But, take a look at me over in James chapter two. Alright? James and chapter two. Now, one reason why folks get twisted, in James, and James is in your new testament by the way. So we're going back going forward in your bible into your new testament. You're gonna pass through the Pauline epistles, you're gonna get through first second Peter. And if you get to first, second Peter, go back to the book of James. James. Alright. What was I saying? Oh, yeah. Yeah. The one reason why folks get twisted up in James and they do, you know, if you wanna guess look, if you wanna get somebody really fouled up, let them run over to James for a while. I mean, you wanna talk about theological suicide?
James, Matthew, Hebrews, and Acts. That that will do it to you every time. Why? Is it is is it because they're an error? No. Not at all. Is it because there are contradictions? No. Why? Because folks don't stop and realize who James is being written to. Who was James being written to? Look at James chapter one verse one. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to who? The 12 tribes, that should tip you off, which are scattered abroad, greeting. So who was James written to? Jews. 12 tribes scattered abroad. It's Jews.
That's who James is written to. Alright? Who was Hebrews written to? Hebrews. Alright? You don't have to be too sharp to get that, do you? Alright. Now, look at James chapter two verse 20. James chapter two and verse 20. But wilt thou know, oh vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham, our father, justified by works when he had offered Isaac, his son, upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works and made works and by works his faith was made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled, which sayeth, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God.
You see then how that by works, a man is justified and not by faith only. Alright? Now, if you read that and compare it with Romans, it seems like an absolute contradiction. Right? You follow? Romans four says, Abraham was justified by his faith. James says, he was justified by his works. Alright. Now now you know that the typical approach to this, even in independent, you know, Baptist circles is kinda just to, you know, wash it away. You know, we don't know how to deal with it, so let's we'll just spiritualize it, and and and how they spiritualize it is like this. You know, Paul in the book of Romans is writing from a theological viewpoint. He's writing from the aspect of how God looks upon man.
When he considered that, you know, man is justified by faith in the sight of God. However, James is writing from a practical aspect, for James is a practical man. So James is not talking about justification in the sight of God, James is talking about justification on the sight of men. And how are we justified in the sight of men, but through our works, therefore, we see blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And and on and on, and that's the way it goes. If you think about that, it doesn't even make sense. The truth of the matter is, though it seems to be a contradiction, it's not. Because in every so called contradiction in the word of God, if you search, which means you have to do some work.
If you search, there's reconciliation. You just have to find the point of reconciliation. Alright. Now, we find what's going on here is this, Abraham got his imputed righteousness when he believed God. He leaves the Ur of the Chaldeans. He's looking out through the eyes of faith at what God promised him. He believed God. He said, okay Lord, I believe you. And God said, blessed is the righteous man that believes God. I'll consider you righteous. But when did Abraham get his justification? When did Abraham get his justification? Verse 21.
Was not Abraham, our father, justified by works when he had offered Isaac upon his son upon the altar? That's exactly where he got his justification. Alright? Imputed righteousness and justification for Abraham were two different things. Imputed righteousness, Genesis fifteen six. Justified, James two twenty one, and Genesis 22, where he offered his son Isaac in obedience to what God had told him to do. Alright? But now let's let's find out how this whole thing fits together. Turn with me over to Romans in chapter four once again. Romans chapter four and verse 24.
Romans chapter four verse 24. But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus, our lord, from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses our offenses, and was raised again for your justification. Alright? When you got saved, you received your imputed righteousness and justification at the same time. The same all at the same time. Alright? Abraham still had to prove something with his works. Abraham got imputed righteousness, but God said he still had to prove something with his works. So he put him to the acid test.
The acid test is sacrifice, and sacrifice is giving up that thing that you love the most, whatever it might be. Sometimes, God comes into our lives with the acid test and asks us to give up that which we love the most. Now in Abraham's case, it was obvious. There was no doubt about it. That which he loved the most was laid down on an altar, his son Isaac. Sometimes, God asks us to give up that which we love the most, or give up something that we love a very great deal. The Bible says that Abraham was listening. God said, Abraham.
And what did Abraham say? He said, hear my lord. You know, a lot of people couldn't possibly get involved in that kind of program or, in relationship with God because they're not listening. They're not listening. Abraham was listening. He said, here am I, lord. And he said, I want you to take your son, your only son Isaac, and I want you to take him to an appointed place, and I want you to offer him up to me. I want you to sacrifice him to me. There's a couple of interesting things there that that that I wanna note about that. Number one, I want you to notice that Abraham didn't check with Sarah.
He didn't check with Sarah. You know, some of us men spend too much time some of us men spend too much time checking with Sarah. When it's very obvious and very clear that God has told you to do something, and when it's very clear and obvious like that, you don't check with Sarah. Just do it. Just do it. You know, some men would tithe, but Sarah won't let you. Some would go preach, but Sarah won't let you. Abraham had checked with Sarah a few times before, and he learned some very hard lessons from it. He finally said, okay. It's enough. I'm not gonna do I'm not I'm going to do what God told me to do, and he didn't check with Sarah.
Now I know I'm getting close to meddling on a lot of this. Alright. I'm just but I'm just telling you, I'm just telling you, that sometimes you just don't check with Sarah. You just go and do what God told you to do. Alright? He got up early. Oh man, who wants to get up early on doomsday? Right? Who who wants to get up early on doomsday? He rose up early. He was anxious to serve God in any way that he could. The Bible says that he took the wood. You know, he was going to a desert place where where there was no wood. He was going to offer up his he was going there to offer up his only son, Isaac.
You know, the most convenient excuse could have been, oops, you know, forgot the wood lord. I guess I have to go, you know, back and try this again another day. But you know what? Abraham wasn't looking for any loopholes. He wasn't looking for any excuses. All he wanted to do was believe God. Alright. Now let me show you something here. Imputed righteousness hinges upon believing God. Justification hinges on believing God. But wait a minute. Didn't James say that Abraham was justified by his works? Yes. He was. In his day, justified by his works.
But the whole thing hinged on him believing God. Look with me over in Genesis chapter 22. Genesis chapter 22. Do I have it? Yep. Here we go. Genesis chapter 22, and it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham? And he said, behold, here I am. And he said, take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off, and Abraham said unto his young men, abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. Alright? A couple of things I wanna point out. Alright. Let's, let's take a look at verse five here really quick. Verse five. Number one, men and ladies, but particularly the men, when it comes, and it and it will come when it comes, and it will come to a time in your life, perhaps maybe a a crossroads in your life, when God says, I want you to step on faith step out on faith.
I want you to really believe me. I really want you to believe thus saith the Lord. It's not easy to talk about it, and it's not always easy to do. Abraham said to his men, abide ye here with the s. You know, every man of God, if he's gonna be a man of God, sometime or another, is going to have to walk alone. Folks, there there is gonna be a time in your life when you're gonna have to step out, and there's not necessarily gonna be anyone there to support you, and help you, and your walk is going to be with you, and God alone.
Every man of God, at one time or another, will have to walk alone. Alright? You can count on that. You can count on it. So, you know, don't consider those occasions, you know, as occasions to to to be afraid. Don't consider those occasions as occasions to fear. Consider them to be opportunities to see what God has on the other side of Jordan. Amen? Alright. The next thing, abide ye here. Still in verse five, abide ye here with the ass, and I will and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. What are you talking about, Abraham? What are you talking about? I and the lad will come again? What do you what do you mean?
Did it mean that Abraham wasn't really prepared to go through with the sacrifice? But we know better, don't we? All we have to do is follow the story. We know that he was prepared to do it. We know that he was prepared to thrust that dagger into the heart of his only son Isaac, whom he loved dearly. And just when he was about to do it, it was that invisible hand that reached down from heaven, grabbed them by the arm, and said, wait. Stop. Don't. There's a ram over there in the thicket. Well, then what do you mean? I and the lad will come back. God told you to sacrifice him, to kill him.
What do you mean I and the lad will come back? Well, here's what he meant. He meant that he believed God. Alright. Now you might be scratching your head saying, where do you get that from from from this? Well, when God said, I'm gonna give your seed this land, and he knew that God would keep his word. And he and he knew that if the seed were allowed to die, he would have to be resurrected. You get it? It's no wonder that Job said, I know that my redeemer liveth. Job lived before Abraham did. Abraham must have known about what Job wrote. I know that my redeemer liveth.
That's why Isaac is a picture in about 37 different ways of Jesus Christ, offered and rose again. Isaac didn't die, so he didn't have to rise again, but had he been allowed to die, God would have resurrected him. So Abraham received his imputed righteousness when he believed, and received his justification when he conformed to the good work that God prescribed for him, but at the same, even that hinged upon belief. It was motivated by belief. It was underlined by belief and faith and trust. Alright. Now, yeah, we're gonna start to wrap this up. So, let's look at some truths concerning the sacrifice. Alright? And then we'll then we'll wrap this up here.
Alright. Some truths concerning the sacrifice. And, you know, if you got a pen and paper handy, this might be something you might wanna jot down as we go through it. Alright. I put them up here as banners, so they'll come up on the screen, so you can write them down. Let's look at some of these truths concerning sacrifice. Until God becomes the sacrifice himself, the atonement is incomplete, and you can find that over in Hebrews chapter 10 and verse four. Alright. We're just gonna go through these. I'm not gonna go to I'm not gonna turn to the scripture references, but I really encourage you to write them down and go look them up for yourself. Okay? So until God becomes the sacrifice himself, the atonement is incomplete. Hebrews 10 verse four.
Until God voluntarily offers himself, he, God, cannot accept the sacrifice. Hebrews ten five through seven, Leviticus one three. Alright. All sacrifices between Genesis three and Matthew 27 are temporary expedients, which do not fully solve the problem of atonement. Hebrews 10 verse 11. Remember? Not by bull not by the blood of bulls and goats. Alright? You following along? God provides a priest class for the nation of Israel to offer sacrifices. First Chronicles fifteen, fourteen to 16, Exodus twenty eight forty to 43, Leviticus nine. But there is no priest class before numbers one and one to 13 or after Acts chapter two. Alright? Take a look at Matthew twenty seven fifty one, Hebrews eight one nine twenty four, first Peter two nine, Revelation seven seven.
Like I said, I'm giving you a lot of scripture. How hope I'm hoping that you guys are writing these things down so you can look them up for yourself. Melchizedek does not offer a literal sacrifice of blood, but only a only a memorial. Genesis fourteen eighteen, first Corinthians ten sixteen and seventeen, eleven twenty five. The entire body of born again believers are priests in the New Testament and never offer literal sacrifices of blood, first Peter two five, Hebrews thirteen fifteen and sixteen, first Corinthians ten sixteen and seventeen. God's provision will be accepted by the faithful man, Romans ten four.
Therefore, the faithful man, after Acts two, will trust God's provision at Calvary done once and forever, Hebrews ten eight through 12, nine twenty four through 26. The faithful man, between Exodus 20 and Matthew 27 will be trusting the provision which God made at the temple in Jerusalem. And then lastly is that lastly? Yeah. We already did that one. Alright. And then, lastly, the the faithful man will make provision for himself by inventing and installing a priesthood after Matthew 27, thereby actually rejecting God's provision.
Galatians five four, Romans ten thirteen. Alright. Now is that clear? Do we do we all understand what we're talking about there? I gave you a bunch of scripture to verify all that stuff, so I really hope you guys were able to write that stuff down. If you didn't, just shoot me an email. I'll send them to you. No problem. Isaac was prepared to be offered as a picture of one to come. The lord Jesus Christ was offered for you. So my question is, have you received that offering? And if you have, you have assurance of eternal life and forgiveness of sin.
Alright. Let's pray. Our heavenly father, we wanna thank you, Lord, for today. We wanna thank you for the blessings that you pour out on us each and every day. Father, I wanna thank you so much for all of those that are watching, listening, and I pray, Lord, that, the message was clear to them today. I know it could be a little bit confusing talking about, imputed righteousness and justification and the difference between how it how it was for Abraham and how it is for us today. But, God, I hope and I pray that, that I was able to to, explain that to them in a way that was easy for them to understand.
Father, I pray that you would just touch each and every one under the sound of my voice today, and I pray father that if there's any that does not know Jesus Christ, that today they would call upon him and be saved. And father, I pray that you would move them to let us know if that's a decision that they make, so that we can rejoice with them and pray with them, and be thankful for that tremendous gift. Father, we thank you again for the week that you've given us, and we pray for the week ahead. And father, we just pray that, you give us an opportunity to glorify your son, in Jesus name. Amen. Alright.
Well, I know I threw a lot at you today. There was a lot of ground to cover, and, but we got through it somehow, someway. And, I hope it was a blessing to you, and I hope it was something that, that answered your questions or any questions you might have had regarding salvation or that particular period of time, especially when it comes to Abraham and and the land that, that that God gave Abraham and to his seed. So, so folks, if you have any questions about that, please let me know. Drop a line and, drop a comment or, send me an email. Let me know, what you're thinking, and, be happy to answer the question. Alright, folks. Don't forget to head over to our website, joeroos.com.
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That's an interesting twist. Mhmm. Transmitting live from the asylum studios deep in the bowels of Southwest Texas. It's the Joe Ruge Show, the show where we talk about anything and everything. Where nothing is sacred, nothing is watered down, and nothing is PC. Alrighty. Hey, folks. This is Joe Ruse, and it is great to be with you once again as we open up and study the precious word of God, your King James Bible. And you know, folks, as always, whenever and wherever you find yourselves watching or listening to us, it's always, always, always my prayer that you also find yourself in the grace and in the mercy of our Lord and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And of course, we are transmitting to you live once again at the Asylum Studios from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass.
Folks, welcome to Bible Study Sunday on the Joe Ruse show. Alrighty. Hope you guys had a good weekend so far. It is, Sunday as as we've said. Fourteen zero five hours on the 11/16/2025. And, it's been a busy busy few days here at the asylum. We took off Friday night. We didn't do a show Friday night, but we did a show yesterday. We had an 11AM show with with, DePaul Fleming. So I hope you guys were able to catch that. That was a really good show. I enjoyed that immensely. We had a great conversation. Super guy. Super guy. Really good guy to talk to. A lot of fun. He and, you know, he'd said something at the very, very start of the show, that he felt like he had me off of my game, and he kinda did in a little bit of a way. Not in a negative way, but, I wasn't expecting the, the, the the sarcasm that came through, you know, so so quickly into the show. So I I was kinda caught off guard by that, but you know what? We recovered, and, we got a couple of good ones in there. I did get him to admit that I am the greatest podcaster there is. So just wanted to throw that back out there in case he's watching, you know, it didn't go unnoticed. And of course, I don't believe that at all. I know I'm far from anything good, so I'm not, you know, you know, if you're watching this, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel, folks.
That's just the way it is. But that's okay, you know. We got we got a loyal little group that, that likes to check us out and tune in, so it's always fun to have, the folks watching. So it's it's blessing, it's great, And, again, here we are. Now it's Sunday, and we're gonna be getting into our, our bible study here in just a couple of minutes. But, you know, what we've been doing over the last, four weeks now, this is week five already, as we've been studying the dispensations. And when you do a study like this one, it it really does help to review, every now and then. You know, it kinda helps to get things, I guess, you know, coordinated in your mind as to where we've been and and where we're going. And what we've been doing is we've been studying major events in each dispensation. So we've been going from the the plan here is to go from Genesis to Revelation, through the entire bible dispensationally.
So we're not doing chapter by chapter, verse by verse, or anything like that, but we're doing it dispensationally. Alright? And, dispensationally speaking, we're talking about the plan of salvation in each dispensation. And, for the last few weeks, we've been following the crown. We found out that, after Adam fell, the crown of the kingdom of God went back to him who gave it. And, it abides in heaven from that time, and going on through. And, we'll see it come back and offer to mankind, but but we haven't got there yet. Alright? And we've also been following the crown of the kingdom of heaven. Now Adam had it, and he lost it. And God appointed a new king, a man by the name of Noah. He gave him dominion over the earth, and he lost it.
And he lost it by partaking of the forbidden fruit, just like Adam did. And then we studied a little bit about the Tower Of Babel, and, and all the events that took place there, and God dispersed man throughout the earth. And then, and now we're coming into a a new dispensation. The dispensation of the patriarchs. I know yesterday on the show, I I mentioned we would get into the law, but actually, I I wanted to to kinda touch on this, at this point, and we'll get into the law starting next week. But, this is a this is a dispensation of the patriarchs. This is the dispensation of of the family, or, you can call it the dispensation of promise. And it's been called all of those things.
All of those things are synonymous terms as far as, this particular dispensation is concerned. And, in some ways, it it really is a continuation of the previous dispensation, but I I decided to kinda to to add this, dispensational line because there really are some distinct, differences, particularly when it comes to the business of tracing the crown. Now as you trace the crown, that that is, god given dominion over the earth. Alright? And and that's really one of the the the best ways you can really understand, dispensational truth. Alright? Now, before we get into the rest of the bible study for today, I'm gonna ask you to do a couple of quick things for us. Just have first of all, head over to our website.
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Alright. Now, still got the little cough going, but doing better. Feeling a, an awful lot better. So, t n e energy. We already covered that. Right? Alright. Sorry. I'm might stop my little marker up here. Alright. Now, we've talked very briefly about the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God. And in about four weeks, we're gonna really really start getting into that. When we hit the end of the law, which is like I said, it can take about four, maybe five weeks to get through. When we hit the end of the law, and you see John the Baptist arriving on the scene, and and then Jesus Christ follows close behind, we'll see two messages that are preached and two kingdoms that are being offered.
Now at that time, we'll distinguish between the two with with a lot more detail than what we have been kinda dipping out there over the last couple of weeks. And you can only distinguish between those kingdoms if you really understand your bible. You'll have you'll just have problems. You'll have problems until you get those two things straight. The book of Matthew talks about the kingdom of heaven. As a matter of fact, it's really the only book that talks about it, and, and it's it's peculiarly different from any other book in your bible.
You know, if, if you try to build church age theology on the book of Matthew, you are barking up the wrong tree folks. You are barking you will have problems. The reason why is because it's a kingdom book. Alright? It's a book essentially written about how Jesus was offering the kingdom of heaven, a physical kingdom to the Jews. Now, now now that kingdom came about with their founding father Abraham. Alright? And then they lost it down the road. So they got it with their founding father Abraham, and then they lost it. And we'll see that we'll see about that in a couple of weeks, how how they eventually did lose it. And it's being offered to them once again when you get to the message of John the Baptist, and he says what? He says, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Alright? That's down the road. Alright? That's down the road. Now we're gonna we're gonna concern ourselves right now with primarily Abraham. Alright? The dispensation follows from the call of Abraham to the Exodus. Alright? That's what this dispensation covers, from the fall of Abraham to the Exodus. Alright? So so it it goes beyond Abraham. Alright? It go it goes it goes to Isaac. It goes to Jacob, and it goes to his sons, and it goes to Joseph, and it and it and it leads on as Israel goes down into Egypt and is taken into bondage. It goes right up until the time when God calls Moses to be the deliverer.
But for today, we're gonna concern ourselves primarily with with one man, and that man is Abraham. He is the focal point of this particular dispensation. Now this particular dispensation wasn't a very long one, it's only about a period about four hundred thirty years. So, but but a lot of a lot of things have taken place in that four hundred thirty year period. Now, we we wanna entertain three different things here, really, in in this particular study, in this particular dispensation, and as we study Abraham. Alright. Now, the first thing that we wanna talk about is his crown.
Alright. Was this man, in fact, a king? Alright. Did God give this man some kind of a crown, or the same kind of crown that he gave Noah and Adam? Well, first of all, Abraham is called the friend of God over in James chapter two verse 23 and in Isaiah forty one eight. Alright. So let's go over there. Let's go to, Isaiah chapter 41. Isaiah chapter 41. And, so if you have your bible, your trusty your handy dandy sword here, your your two edged sword, go to the book of Psalms, middle of your bible, and you go go through Proverbs, and you're gonna go through the song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, song of Solomon, and then you're gonna go into Isaiah.
Alright? Isaiah chapter 41. Isaiah chapter 41. Joe, why do you say it so much? Well, to give you time to get there. That's why. If I jump too far ahead, you're gonna get lost. Alright. Isaiah chapter 41, and we're gonna start, I think, in verse one. Right? Isaiah 41 and verse number one. Let's put it up on the screen here. Alright. Keep silence before me, oh islands, and let the people renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let us come near together to judgment. Who raised up the righteous man from the East? Alright. Now, Abraham came from the East. Okay? He came from Ur of the Chaldees.
That's where he came from. Called him to his foot, gave him gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings. He gave them as the dust to his sword and as driven stubble to his bow. He pursued them. Alright? And that's exactly what he did, in rescuing a lot, and you could read read about that over in the book of Genesis, and passed safely even by the way that he had not gone with his feet. Alright? So so so God says here that this righteous man came from the East, he gave him nations, and made him to rule over kings. Alright? Now what we see taking place here is something a little bit different than what we saw with Adam and Noah, and that is that God gave Abraham a covenant as he gave as he gave Adam and as he gave Noah, but it's a little different.
It was it it's built on an entirely different basis. Alright? Noah was given a covenant that was contingent upon works. Alright? Adam was given a covenant, and it was a con and it was contingent upon works. Alright? Abraham was given a covenant, and it was built on grace. Grace. Now that's a that's a vast difference. That's a vast difference. God said, Abraham, I'm gonna do this for you. Period. End of the story. I'm gonna do this for you. End of the story. It wasn't, I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna do this for you if you do such and such, or if you do thus and thus, I'm gonna do this and that for you. So it's called by theologians, and sometimes they use this.
Sometimes, you know, sometimes the I get frustrated with them sometimes, you know. Sometimes theologians use these really long words to really try to impress you, you know. But but the theologians, if you went to the seminaries, or you went to Bible school, they they would call it an unconditional covenant. Alright? An unconditional covenant, and that's what it was. There were no conditions attached to it. That's why when you get over to Romans chapter four, Abraham is used in type, as and as an example of our salvation.
Alright? You get over to Galatians, he's in in a sense tied to our salvation in illustration, because Abraham was a recipient of grace. Alright? He lived in an age of grace in the respect that he lived before the law. You know, Abraham wasn't under the umbrella of the law because the law hadn't come into effect yet. The only law that that was there was the same law that Adam lived under, that Enoch lived under, and Noah lived under, and that was the law of conscience. And we talked about that into some detail. And we see that that law is present all the way through to Moses, and yet God came and he made an unconditional covenant with Abraham.
That's why Abraham in Romans four is tied so closely and linked so closely with the New Testament Christian. Because you see, when you and I trusted Jesus Christ as our savior, we entered into an unconditional covenant. Isn't that right? God didn't say, I'll save you if you do thus and thus. God said, I'll save you. Period. All you have to do is ask me, and trust me, and call upon my name. That's all there is to it. That's all there is. And he gives the gift of eternal life. Alright. Well, Abraham Abraham entered into an unconditional covenant.
You know, as a matter of fact, you know, it it I don't I I think we have time. Right? Turn with me over to Romans. Romans, let's get a little bit of background. So we're gonna go to your New Testament. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans. Fourth book of your New Testament, Romans chapter four. Romans in chapter four, and we're gonna read several several verses here. Okay? Romans chapter four. And we're gonna start here in verse number one. Alright. What shall we say then? That Abraham, our father, as pertaining to the flesh, have found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.
For what sayeth the scripture? Abraham believed Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh, and it is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom god imputed righteousness without works, saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also?
For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Well, how was it then reckoned? When he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. And the father of circumcision to them, who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had yet being circum uncircumcised.
For which he had yet for which he had being yet uncircumcised. For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Alright? That's a lot. But here, the apostle Paul writes specifically to some some Jewish Christians in Rome. Alright? Although, he wrote to the Roman church, which was a composite of all people, but what he's trying to do is he's trying to illustrate to them that Abraham became a Jew. You see, Abraham was a gentile. Alright? There there wasn't any such thing as a Jew before Abraham.
Abraham was out of Shem, so he was he he was just another Shemite. And remember we talked about the we talked about the the sons of the sons of Noah, and how they dispersed. But Abraham was just another Shemite. God called him out. He called him out of the Ur of the Chaldees, and he said, now now you come out, and I'm gonna make of thee a great nation. Now, when God called him, he wasn't a Jew. Alright? The sign of the Jew was circumcision, but he wasn't circumcised then. Therefore, he was an uncircumcised gentile, and that's the point that God is getting across in Romans chapter four. Well, in this condition, God made him the father of us all.
You know, Jewish people like to say, Abraham our father. Well, Paul says, in a sense, Abraham is the father of us all. Alright? Well, in what sense? In the sense that he walked with God by faith. That's how. Alright? That's how. You know, God called him out, and he and he said, and he said, I'll walk with you by faith. The whole life of Abraham, if you if you study it, the whole life of Abraham is characterized by faith, and that's why he's called the friend of God. Remember remember Jesus said this, Jesus said, you are no longer servants, you are my friends.
The relationship of anyone who walks by faith with God is that of a friend. And so, and so he he called him out, and he responded. Now, it's it's interesting for us to notice that that at about this time when God called Abraham out of the East, and, you know, and it's interesting to notice that he went from east to west. Alright? East to west, that's the blessed direction in your bible. Alright? And and it's just amazing what you can learn from a Bible, by the way. You know, when Adam was cast out of the garden, he was cast out of the East Gate. Right? He went from west to east.
West to east. Alright? And that's the cursed direction. When God called Moses, when God called Moses and Israel back in back into Palestine, he had them go up on the East Side Of Israel, so that they could cross Jordan going from the East to the West. Alright. Did you ever study military campaigns? It's interesting. It really it it really is interesting. I find this stuff fascinating. Napoleon. Napoleon went East, and it finished him. Alright? Hitler decided to go East into Russia, finished him. Did you ever study that? I mean, think about this. Isn't it amazing the things that you could find in an old fashioned, out of date, archaic Bible?
Isn't that something? Isn't that something? Are you familiar with the Battle of Gettysburg? You know, the American Civil War, the war between the states, the war of Northern aggression. The South was winning the war until they decided to flank the Northern army on the West and go East. It's amazing what's in your Bible folks. I I I am never ceased to be I never ceased to be amazed at what is in this book. Never ceased to amaze me, never does. Well, let's not be like the Pharisees when Jesus said, you do greatly not knowing the scriptures. Alright?
Now, Abraham's father was an idolater, and he called him out. And I'm sure he paid a certain price for leaving, but ultimately God rewarded him. You know what happens to a lot of folks? And you you see this all the time. You get saved, God calls you out. You got saved, God called you out of a religion of idolatry. And you know, sometimes folks have second thoughts. Sometimes you may wonder, you know, if you're a babe in Christ, you know, if if you if you you might wonder, did you really make the right decision? Is it really worth it? Because oftentimes, problems come up within your family, within the people closest to you, when you make that decision. But I I promise you, I assure you that God will reward you accordingly.
Man will never reward you, but God certainly will. God will take care of it in due time. Alright? So we're linked to Abraham, and we're linked to Abraham in several ways. In fact, we're linked to Abraham in the fact that that he responded to faith, in the fact that he responded to the call of God. We're linked to Abraham in the fact that he left his family, his friends, and and he and and he forsook all to walk with God and be a friend of God. Now I am absolutely not suggesting that God always calls upon you to forsake your family, your friends, and and and every and everything else. But folks, if it comes down to a choice if it comes to a choice, and look, I know many families, many families that have had to make this choice because, you know, their family basically forced them to make this choice. If if it if it comes to a choice where where they say, you either take us, or you take Jesus. Let me tell you something folks, take Jesus.
Take Jesus. If that's what it comes down to, I hope it don't. I I really I I hope it never does. I don't want it to, but but but if that's what it comes down to, that's what you ought to do. You take Jesus. A lot of folks have done it before you. A lot of folks have done it before you. I guarantee you that even though they may have paid a price, God is gonna take care of them. God is gonna take care of them. You can count on that. You count on that. Alright? So so this king, Abraham, was installed in an unconditional covenant of grace. Alright? Now now isn't that a picture of our salvation?
Eternal security. My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto them eternal life. You know, Satan had Adam, no contest. You know why? Because it was a conditional covenant based upon works. Noah, a conditional covenant based on works. Boom. Done. That quick. No contest. For that guy, that devil, Satan, is more subtle than any beast of the field, which the Lord God hath made. No contents for that that that that beast that's wiser than Daniel. No contest for the god of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the angel of light. No contest.
But all of a sudden, there's a covenant of grace, unconditional. All of a sudden, the issue becomes far more complicated. And studying the second point, the property that God promised this king under this unconditional covenant, you know, we we can begin to see and begin to focus on the events of the history of the world. And and and and and, you know, we can begin to get at least a little idea, a little understanding of why so many of the things that have taken place have taken place. Alright. Take your Bibles. Turn with me over to Genesis chapter 15. Genesis chapter 15.
Alright. Genesis chapter 15, and we're gonna go to verse, 13. So Genesis let's go back to the front of your bible, first book of your bible. First book of Moses, by the way. Genesis chapter 15. You know, you do know that Moses wrote the first five books of your Bible. Right? Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Moses wrote them. Alright. Genesis chapter 15 and, verse 13. Genesis 15 verse 13. And he said unto Abram, know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years. Alright. So God's already prophesying Egyptian bondage. You see that? And verse 14, and also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge, and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, thou shalt be buried in the good old age. But on the fourth generation, they shall come hither again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. And it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. In the same day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram saying unto saying, unto thy seed have I given this land from the River Of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates. Alright. Now that's what God promised. That's what God promised.
Verse 19. The Kenites, the the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jeb all the ites. What got so what God promised Abraham and his seed as he came from the East, the chunk of ground that God promised his, God that God promised is, promised him is virtually an equilateral triangle of a thousand miles on each side. Alright? So you got from the Nile River, the river of Egypt, to the river Euphrates, clear up to Mount Ararat, where where Noah and his boys got out of the boat. And now, and interestingly enough, and just coincidentally, coincidentally, interestingly enough and coincidentally enough, that piece of ground for four thousand years has been the most fought over piece of ground than any other piece of real estate on the face of the Earth.
There have been more military campaigns waged on that piece of ground than all the rest of the world put together. That is the bloodiest chunk of real estate that you can ever imagine. I wonder why. I wonder why. Well, God promised that piece of ground. And and and you see, in in in owning that piece of real estate, the unconditional covenant amounts to this. Whoever possesses that piece of real estate will ultimately possess the crown of the kingdom of heaven. Whoever possesses that piece of land will control the earth. Now the the closest that we've ever seen Israel come to possessing that that piece of ground was during the reign of Solomon.
And, and and we, you know, we'll see when we advance in our studies into the law, we'll see that if if Solomon had been faithful, and stayed away from the foreign wives, their foreign gods, if he had been faithful, then the kingdom of heaven would have been ushered in on a permanent basis. But because of that unfaithfulness, it was lost for a while. Alright. Now you're sitting here saying, wait a second. I thought you said this was an unconditional covenant. It is an unconditional covenant. That's why the loss is only temporary. That's why Israel will someday regain that piece of ground.
I mean, what they own now is is is is a very, very small portion of it. Very, very small. They're gonna own all that God promised them, and consequently that piece of ground becomes the focal point for all the political activities of the world. I mean isn't it interesting? Is it just think about it. Isn't it interesting that the great concern of of of this time, that we recognize as the last days, is the Middle East? Isn't it interesting how all of the real oil reserves are all in The Middle East? Do do you suppose that's all of a coincidence? Well, the spot picked for Abraham's earthly, literal, physical kingdom turns out to be the major battleground for this planet.
And this piece of ground was picked deliberately by God to stand right smack in the middle of of three continents, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Right smack in the middle of three continents. It's called the crossroads of the world. You can imagine that that little piece of ground is gonna become a bloody piece of ground. And you can imagine that anyone that doesn't accept the word of God to be the literal word of God is gonna have problems with an unconditional covenant that God promised Abraham. Alright, now let let me get a little bigoted here for a minute. Let me get a little prejudiced, and and talk about some other people's religion. I mean, after all, you know I never like to do that.
I don't like to do that. Alright. Let let let me bring up let me bring you up to date on what's going on. Alright. Some of you are probably aware of these things, if you're paying attention. For some of you, this might be a new revelation. I don't know. But, you know, the majority of the major denominations in the world today that call themselves Christians, subscribe to what we call Amillennialism. Alright? Southern Baptist Convention officially subscribes to Amillennialism. Alright. The Roman Catholic Church officially subscribes to Amillennialism. The Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church, Episcopal Church. In fact, you you could see the the majority of denominations all subscribe to Amillennialism.
Alright. Now, alright, Joe what well, what's Amillennialism? What does that mean? Alright. Get your pen and paper, here we go. This is study time. There are three basic views about the millennium. Alright? Now the millennium is when Jesus Christ is gonna return for a thousand years. He's gonna literally rule and reign from Jerusalem, and rule the world. Alright? Now the Bibles the Bible has a has a lot to say. In fact, has a great deal to say about that particular time period. Alright? Now, there there were three ideas approaching the millennium. Alright? One is, pre millennial return of Christ. Now, listen, if you if you are a real bible literalist, you are a pre millennialist.
I am a pre I am a pre millennialist. Alright? And that means this, that means that you believe that Jesus is going to literally return, and he will literally set up a literal kingdom, and he will literally rule from Jerusalem for a literal one thousand years, exactly like the Bible says. Alright? Now there are a few of what we call post millennialists. Alright. There are a few of them left. There's not many, but there's a few of them left. World War two kind of wiped them out, but, a post millennial a post millennialist says that the millennium is gonna be ushered in without Christ, and he's gonna come at the conclusion of it. Alright?
That that's just insanity. Alright? That's all that is. That's just insanity. Now, an an amillennialist says that Christ will never bring in the kingdom, that man is gonna bring in the kingdom. And all of the hundreds of passages of scripture that deal with the subject of Jesus literally returning are all symbolic language. Therefore, they are treated from a symbolic viewpoint. Alright. Over in the book of Revelation, in one chapter, in just one chapter, God God says a thousand years, a thousand years, a thousand years. He says it six times in one chapter, six times.
Now, if you engage in amillennialism, theology, your emphasis is placed upon man, not God. Your emphasis in your church, and and your and your program is is all focused on bringing in the kingdom instead of the salvation of of individual personal souls. A bible literalist says, man is not qualified to bring in the kingdom. For man has had one, two, three, four, five, six, that, 10 thou hundreds of opportunities in every time, every single time, he's failed. Every time. We certainly are bringing in the kingdom with our society, aren't we? The kingdom is characterized in the Bible by peace and prosperity.
There's never been a major politician in the world that's run for any office that didn't promise peace and prosperity. I mean, that's what everybody wants. Donald Trump says he wants to be the peace president. Right? He wants to usher in the golden age of America. Peace and prosperity. Everybody wants a piece of the kingdom. It was offered to the Jews when Jesus showed up, and they wanted the kingdom too. The only thing about it was, they didn't want to fulfill the necessary prerequisites to get the kingdom, and those prerequisites dealt with the issue of morality and righteousness.
Hence, John the Baptist, the pre the the predecessor of Jesus preaching the message of repentance. He declared, repent of your sin and turn from your wickedness. Then after you repent, then you can have the kingdom. You know, man today is is making the conscious effort to bring in the kingdom. You know, let's have one world government. World economic forum, world health organization, and all of those dystopian type paragovernment organizations. One world government, think of the United Nations. You know, let's all get together. Let's have a one world religion.
Let's have peace, let's have prosperity. What's that one world religion gonna be? I don't know. Some people say it's gonna be a a conglomeration of of of Christianity and Islam, they call it chrislam. Some people think it's the it's gonna be one of those new age religions. You know, Gaia, Mother Earth, and all that stuff. Let's have peace. Let's have prosperity. Let's have all of these things, and when the Antichrist shows up, and gives what he what seems to be legitimate, and and and reasonable answers to the problems that man has, then the world is gonna clamor to him.
But that too will fail. That too will fall apart. Right? Now the reason why religion puts its emphasis on man and puts the emphasis on bringing in the kingdom himself and establishing the kingdom is because as long as the emphasis is there, the emphasis doesn't have to be on Christ. Did you catch that? Do you understand that? And as long as we keep the emphasis of Jesus Christ, then we could avoid righteousness, morality, and goodness, and we can remain in our sin, in our lust, in our wickedness. Alright? Now, that is the bottom line of it, folks. Some of the most wicked people on earth are religious people.
And as long as we can stay busy bringing them the kingdom but you see folks, the kingdom isn't gonna come in without the king. When the king shows up, then we'll have the kingdom. Alright. Let me just give you an example. I know I'm picking on people. I know. I know. It's just something that that just gets in me sometimes. Sometimes I just can't help it. It just kinda overwhelms me. You know? You know, when I when I, you know, when I sit down and I write these outlines, you know, sometimes it's like an invisible force that just takes my hand. You know. I don't know what to say. I I don't but but I found this I found this one. This was good.
And, and, I said, you know, I I shouldn't put it in, but the flesh prevailed, and I did. Alright. Let me pull this up here so I can read it. Alright. So so the Roman Catholic church, is the classic example of Amillennial theology. Alright? There's there's no Amillennialist on the face of the earth that will say that the land the the land that God promised Abraham literally belongs to the Jews. Alright? They will not say that. You will never hear an amillennialist say that. They can't afford to say that because it is inconsistent with their theology.
Alright? The the amillennialist says the kingdom has come, and the kingdom has been delivered to the Jews and is now passed. You know you know, it's it's it's ancient history. It's it's it's it's forever forgotten, and now it's the church, whatever that is. That's the qualified candidate to receive the kingdom, and therefore, there are churches, whether it's, you know, from Catholicism to Southern Baptist to to, you know, British Israelitism or Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Christian Scientists, you know, whatever. And and as you examine their theology, the whole thing revolves around this. What they're trying to do is steal Israel's earthly promises from trying to steal Israel's earthly promises from Israel, and claim those promises for themselves.
That's what's going on. Alright? Now just as an example, you know, I I didn't I didn't take time to to to to track down, and I'm I'm really not, you know, particularly picking on the Catholics. I could have picked statements from the Southern Baptist or, convention or Jehovah's witnesses or a lot of other people, you know, they all essentially say the same thing. But, you know, Catholics, are the majority. You see a lot of, Catholicism, you know, increasing, people, you know, being more open about the Catholic faith. So, let's pick on them for a little while. Alright? Let's let the pope speak for himself.
Alright. So what I'm gonna read to you is, these these words were taken from the, Roman Catholic publication called the tablet. Alright. I'm gonna let them do their own preaching. Alright? I'm gonna quote. Now this isn't the current pope. This is from from some time back. Alright? The the speaker is, is is, Melkite, archbishop archbishop Gregorius Hakan of Saint John Of Aca, after returning from Rome and talking with Pope Pius the, thirteenth twelfth. I'm sorry. Twelfth. Here's what he said. And it and it wasn't just stated verbally, it was actually written down in this official Catholic publication.
Quote, his holiness asked me to convey his great satisfaction and joy of the unity and the full collaboration showed by the Arabs of Palestine in protecting the Holy Land. The pope has studied a protest against the Balfour declaration. Now, if you're unfamiliar with the Balfour declaration is, the Balfour declaration, was a declaration in Britain in 1917 that granted, by the old league of nations, that granted, the the land area of Palestine back to the Jews. Alright? So that's what that's about. He said, the pope has studied a protest against the Balfour declaration made by his predecessor, Pope Pius the eleventh. The policy of the Holy See toward this declaration has not changed. His holiness the pope cannot afford to help Zionism against the Arabs of Palestine. The pope told me that he would not fail to support the Arabs because they are the owners of the Holy Land. Alright. So that's the official documented policy of the Roman Catholic church toward Israel, and it has not changed since that statement was made.
Alright? They have officially said that that, the land belongs to the Arabs. But is that what God said? Is that what God said? There isn't anybody in this world that wants Israel back in that land except a handful of Bible believing Christians and Jews. I wonder why. I I I did you ever wonder why? You see, at one point, the, the the satanic attack was against a man. But all of a sudden, the attack is no longer focused on a man, but upon his seed. All of the generations that follow. Why? Because the promise, the unconditional covenant of the crown that was promised to his seed.
That's why. Did you ever wonder why Israel was taken into Egyptian bondage for four hundred years? Did you ever wonder why all of the years of ancient history and even modern history, Israel as a nation has been attacked and persecuted? You know, why is antisemitism so rampant around the world? Why is it that Hitler exterminated 6,000,000 Jewish people? Why is it that Ferdinand and and and Isabella were so convinced by a Roman Catholic archbishop to expel all Jews from their country? Why is it that you could go back through the dark ages and see how the Jews were hunted down and killed in cold blood and tortured as much as bible believing Christians were? Why is it that for all these years, there's they they've been a a a hunted and an attacked people because the attack is no longer focused upon a man, but upon a seed.
The battle is who's gonna run who. The battle is who's going to wear the crown. The battle is who is going to have dominion over the Earth. The battle revolves around Lucifer because he once had dominion and he lost it. And ever since, he's been trying to regain it. And he has periodically, from time to time, because of default. Alright? Now now the pope, the southern baptists, the the, the Presbyterians might be, right, might be amillennialists, but the devil ain't, and he isn't either. He's not. He knows what God's got in mind for that chunk of land over there. He knows what's gonna come out of Zion.
He knows who God has planned to reign in Jerusalem. So so so so you can expect, as the last days continue, you can expect the attacks to intensify. Everything that you're seeing right now is all according to plan. None of this should take anybody who knows their Bible, studies their Bible, understands their Bible by surprise. You could expect wars to get more and more frequent. You can expect the threats against Israel to become more and more and more all the time. You can expect what the Bible says about Russia moving closer and closer. In fact, during the tribulation, she'll be posed to literally crush Israel, and and God will send natural phenomena to literally destroy the armies of Russia.
It is amazing what you learn from your Bible. Well again, the Bible can save save the day, although many willing many aren't willing to pay attention to it. Because folks, you know, here here is the owner of the land. The giver of the land. Receiver of the land. The title deed to the land. You know, I've given you a lot of scripture to look up, as as we as we've gone through these studies. And I hope I hope you've been writing these things down, so you can look look them up, you know, on your own, on at your leisure, and find out exactly how you can know that this ground is promised to the seed of Abraham, not just past present, not just past, but but future. And someday someday they're gonna realize those promises.
And to say that that that that the Arabs own that land isn't just it's not biblical. It is not that the land was not given to Ishmael, the Arabian. God himself takes sides against Gad, the Arabian in Nehemiah chapter six in verse one, and chapter four and verse seven, when when when he appears to be, when he appears professing to be the chosen seed to whom the promises were made. I mean, do do you realize the implications of what I just said? The implications of what I just said is that that every Turk, Muslim, Arabian, European Crusader who died in the Crusades died needlessly.
Needlessly. Do you know what the Crusades were all about? The Crusades were all about the the the the the the take the land away from those Christ rejecting Jews, and and so in the name of religion, off they went. Millions died. Millions, and and that's how it happens. Alright? So so out goes Abraham into a land that God promised to him and to his seed. Alright? Now we're gonna see under the law, this covenant had two aspects to it. It had an unconditional aspect, and, because it was unconditional in one respect in one aspect, it'll be and eventually, it'll be realized. It'll come to pass whether anybody likes it or not.
Then it was conditional in another aspect in that the land was lost to the Jew temporarily. Temporarily. And again, what he now controls is nothing compared to what he will control. And interestingly enough, this will be the fertile crescent of the world. During the millennium, it will be the most fertile piece of ground on the face of the earth. It will blossom as a rose in the desert, and what you're seeing taking place right now over there is nothing. Nothing. God will take care of it. Do you know what God's gonna do? Now I don't really have time to go through the word of God and show it to you, but but God's gonna change the Dead Sea into a sea of fresh water.
You know, we'll get into some of this stuff when we get into the study of Revelation and millennium, period of time, and and and all that, but but God's gonna take the Dead Sea and turn it into a sea of fresh water. A sea of fresh water instead of dead water. Alright? Now let's look lastly at Abraham's salvation. Alright? Now Abraham lived, like we said, in an age of grace, but it but it's not exactly the grace that our grace is simply because Jesus Christ had not yet been to the excuse me, has not yet been to the cross. So so, you know, the price hadn't been completely paid.
So his salvation was, even though it was a salvation of grace, a and a salvation of faith, it was in two parts. Okay? It was in two it was a two part salvation. Alright. Take your Bible and go with me over to, Genesis chapter 15. Genesis chapter 15. We're we're still in the, front of your Bible. And Genesis chapter 15. Sorry. I thought I muted that. Genesis chapter 15 and verse five. Alright. Genesis 15 verse five. Here we go. And he brought him forth abroad and said, look now toward heaven, and tell the stars if thou be able to number them. And he said unto him, so shall thy seed be.
And he believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness. Alright. When you get over to, Romans chapter four that we read a little while ago, that's called imputed righteousness. It's called imputed righteousness. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, David said. Alright. Now, the word impute, what does that mean? Well, it the word impute literally means to put upon. Alright? God will not put sin upon a man if he has believed on the Lord by faith. Alright. So he has imputed righteousness. He got his imputed righteousness when he believed.
But, take a look at me over in James chapter two. Alright? James and chapter two. Now, one reason why folks get twisted, in James, and James is in your new testament by the way. So we're going back going forward in your bible into your new testament. You're gonna pass through the Pauline epistles, you're gonna get through first second Peter. And if you get to first, second Peter, go back to the book of James. James. Alright. What was I saying? Oh, yeah. Yeah. The one reason why folks get twisted up in James and they do, you know, if you wanna guess look, if you wanna get somebody really fouled up, let them run over to James for a while. I mean, you wanna talk about theological suicide?
James, Matthew, Hebrews, and Acts. That that will do it to you every time. Why? Is it is is it because they're an error? No. Not at all. Is it because there are contradictions? No. Why? Because folks don't stop and realize who James is being written to. Who was James being written to? Look at James chapter one verse one. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to who? The 12 tribes, that should tip you off, which are scattered abroad, greeting. So who was James written to? Jews. 12 tribes scattered abroad. It's Jews.
That's who James is written to. Alright? Who was Hebrews written to? Hebrews. Alright? You don't have to be too sharp to get that, do you? Alright. Now, look at James chapter two verse 20. James chapter two and verse 20. But wilt thou know, oh vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham, our father, justified by works when he had offered Isaac, his son, upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works and made works and by works his faith was made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled, which sayeth, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God.
You see then how that by works, a man is justified and not by faith only. Alright? Now, if you read that and compare it with Romans, it seems like an absolute contradiction. Right? You follow? Romans four says, Abraham was justified by his faith. James says, he was justified by his works. Alright. Now now you know that the typical approach to this, even in independent, you know, Baptist circles is kinda just to, you know, wash it away. You know, we don't know how to deal with it, so let's we'll just spiritualize it, and and and how they spiritualize it is like this. You know, Paul in the book of Romans is writing from a theological viewpoint. He's writing from the aspect of how God looks upon man.
When he considered that, you know, man is justified by faith in the sight of God. However, James is writing from a practical aspect, for James is a practical man. So James is not talking about justification in the sight of God, James is talking about justification on the sight of men. And how are we justified in the sight of men, but through our works, therefore, we see blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And and on and on, and that's the way it goes. If you think about that, it doesn't even make sense. The truth of the matter is, though it seems to be a contradiction, it's not. Because in every so called contradiction in the word of God, if you search, which means you have to do some work.
If you search, there's reconciliation. You just have to find the point of reconciliation. Alright. Now, we find what's going on here is this, Abraham got his imputed righteousness when he believed God. He leaves the Ur of the Chaldeans. He's looking out through the eyes of faith at what God promised him. He believed God. He said, okay Lord, I believe you. And God said, blessed is the righteous man that believes God. I'll consider you righteous. But when did Abraham get his justification? When did Abraham get his justification? Verse 21.
Was not Abraham, our father, justified by works when he had offered Isaac upon his son upon the altar? That's exactly where he got his justification. Alright? Imputed righteousness and justification for Abraham were two different things. Imputed righteousness, Genesis fifteen six. Justified, James two twenty one, and Genesis 22, where he offered his son Isaac in obedience to what God had told him to do. Alright? But now let's let's find out how this whole thing fits together. Turn with me over to Romans in chapter four once again. Romans chapter four and verse 24.
Romans chapter four verse 24. But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus, our lord, from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses our offenses, and was raised again for your justification. Alright? When you got saved, you received your imputed righteousness and justification at the same time. The same all at the same time. Alright? Abraham still had to prove something with his works. Abraham got imputed righteousness, but God said he still had to prove something with his works. So he put him to the acid test.
The acid test is sacrifice, and sacrifice is giving up that thing that you love the most, whatever it might be. Sometimes, God comes into our lives with the acid test and asks us to give up that which we love the most. Now in Abraham's case, it was obvious. There was no doubt about it. That which he loved the most was laid down on an altar, his son Isaac. Sometimes, God asks us to give up that which we love the most, or give up something that we love a very great deal. The Bible says that Abraham was listening. God said, Abraham.
And what did Abraham say? He said, hear my lord. You know, a lot of people couldn't possibly get involved in that kind of program or, in relationship with God because they're not listening. They're not listening. Abraham was listening. He said, here am I, lord. And he said, I want you to take your son, your only son Isaac, and I want you to take him to an appointed place, and I want you to offer him up to me. I want you to sacrifice him to me. There's a couple of interesting things there that that that I wanna note about that. Number one, I want you to notice that Abraham didn't check with Sarah.
He didn't check with Sarah. You know, some of us men spend too much time some of us men spend too much time checking with Sarah. When it's very obvious and very clear that God has told you to do something, and when it's very clear and obvious like that, you don't check with Sarah. Just do it. Just do it. You know, some men would tithe, but Sarah won't let you. Some would go preach, but Sarah won't let you. Abraham had checked with Sarah a few times before, and he learned some very hard lessons from it. He finally said, okay. It's enough. I'm not gonna do I'm not I'm going to do what God told me to do, and he didn't check with Sarah.
Now I know I'm getting close to meddling on a lot of this. Alright. I'm just but I'm just telling you, I'm just telling you, that sometimes you just don't check with Sarah. You just go and do what God told you to do. Alright? He got up early. Oh man, who wants to get up early on doomsday? Right? Who who wants to get up early on doomsday? He rose up early. He was anxious to serve God in any way that he could. The Bible says that he took the wood. You know, he was going to a desert place where where there was no wood. He was going to offer up his he was going there to offer up his only son, Isaac.
You know, the most convenient excuse could have been, oops, you know, forgot the wood lord. I guess I have to go, you know, back and try this again another day. But you know what? Abraham wasn't looking for any loopholes. He wasn't looking for any excuses. All he wanted to do was believe God. Alright. Now let me show you something here. Imputed righteousness hinges upon believing God. Justification hinges on believing God. But wait a minute. Didn't James say that Abraham was justified by his works? Yes. He was. In his day, justified by his works.
But the whole thing hinged on him believing God. Look with me over in Genesis chapter 22. Genesis chapter 22. Do I have it? Yep. Here we go. Genesis chapter 22, and it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham? And he said, behold, here I am. And he said, take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off, and Abraham said unto his young men, abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. Alright? A couple of things I wanna point out. Alright. Let's, let's take a look at verse five here really quick. Verse five. Number one, men and ladies, but particularly the men, when it comes, and it and it will come when it comes, and it will come to a time in your life, perhaps maybe a a crossroads in your life, when God says, I want you to step on faith step out on faith.
I want you to really believe me. I really want you to believe thus saith the Lord. It's not easy to talk about it, and it's not always easy to do. Abraham said to his men, abide ye here with the s. You know, every man of God, if he's gonna be a man of God, sometime or another, is going to have to walk alone. Folks, there there is gonna be a time in your life when you're gonna have to step out, and there's not necessarily gonna be anyone there to support you, and help you, and your walk is going to be with you, and God alone.
Every man of God, at one time or another, will have to walk alone. Alright? You can count on that. You can count on it. So, you know, don't consider those occasions, you know, as occasions to to to be afraid. Don't consider those occasions as occasions to fear. Consider them to be opportunities to see what God has on the other side of Jordan. Amen? Alright. The next thing, abide ye here. Still in verse five, abide ye here with the ass, and I will and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. What are you talking about, Abraham? What are you talking about? I and the lad will come again? What do you what do you mean?
Did it mean that Abraham wasn't really prepared to go through with the sacrifice? But we know better, don't we? All we have to do is follow the story. We know that he was prepared to do it. We know that he was prepared to thrust that dagger into the heart of his only son Isaac, whom he loved dearly. And just when he was about to do it, it was that invisible hand that reached down from heaven, grabbed them by the arm, and said, wait. Stop. Don't. There's a ram over there in the thicket. Well, then what do you mean? I and the lad will come back. God told you to sacrifice him, to kill him.
What do you mean I and the lad will come back? Well, here's what he meant. He meant that he believed God. Alright. Now you might be scratching your head saying, where do you get that from from from this? Well, when God said, I'm gonna give your seed this land, and he knew that God would keep his word. And he and he knew that if the seed were allowed to die, he would have to be resurrected. You get it? It's no wonder that Job said, I know that my redeemer liveth. Job lived before Abraham did. Abraham must have known about what Job wrote. I know that my redeemer liveth.
That's why Isaac is a picture in about 37 different ways of Jesus Christ, offered and rose again. Isaac didn't die, so he didn't have to rise again, but had he been allowed to die, God would have resurrected him. So Abraham received his imputed righteousness when he believed, and received his justification when he conformed to the good work that God prescribed for him, but at the same, even that hinged upon belief. It was motivated by belief. It was underlined by belief and faith and trust. Alright. Now, yeah, we're gonna start to wrap this up. So, let's look at some truths concerning the sacrifice. Alright? And then we'll then we'll wrap this up here.
Alright. Some truths concerning the sacrifice. And, you know, if you got a pen and paper handy, this might be something you might wanna jot down as we go through it. Alright. I put them up here as banners, so they'll come up on the screen, so you can write them down. Let's look at some of these truths concerning sacrifice. Until God becomes the sacrifice himself, the atonement is incomplete, and you can find that over in Hebrews chapter 10 and verse four. Alright. We're just gonna go through these. I'm not gonna go to I'm not gonna turn to the scripture references, but I really encourage you to write them down and go look them up for yourself. Okay? So until God becomes the sacrifice himself, the atonement is incomplete. Hebrews 10 verse four.
Until God voluntarily offers himself, he, God, cannot accept the sacrifice. Hebrews ten five through seven, Leviticus one three. Alright. All sacrifices between Genesis three and Matthew 27 are temporary expedients, which do not fully solve the problem of atonement. Hebrews 10 verse 11. Remember? Not by bull not by the blood of bulls and goats. Alright? You following along? God provides a priest class for the nation of Israel to offer sacrifices. First Chronicles fifteen, fourteen to 16, Exodus twenty eight forty to 43, Leviticus nine. But there is no priest class before numbers one and one to 13 or after Acts chapter two. Alright? Take a look at Matthew twenty seven fifty one, Hebrews eight one nine twenty four, first Peter two nine, Revelation seven seven.
Like I said, I'm giving you a lot of scripture. How hope I'm hoping that you guys are writing these things down so you can look them up for yourself. Melchizedek does not offer a literal sacrifice of blood, but only a only a memorial. Genesis fourteen eighteen, first Corinthians ten sixteen and seventeen, eleven twenty five. The entire body of born again believers are priests in the New Testament and never offer literal sacrifices of blood, first Peter two five, Hebrews thirteen fifteen and sixteen, first Corinthians ten sixteen and seventeen. God's provision will be accepted by the faithful man, Romans ten four.
Therefore, the faithful man, after Acts two, will trust God's provision at Calvary done once and forever, Hebrews ten eight through 12, nine twenty four through 26. The faithful man, between Exodus 20 and Matthew 27 will be trusting the provision which God made at the temple in Jerusalem. And then lastly is that lastly? Yeah. We already did that one. Alright. And then, lastly, the the faithful man will make provision for himself by inventing and installing a priesthood after Matthew 27, thereby actually rejecting God's provision.
Galatians five four, Romans ten thirteen. Alright. Now is that clear? Do we do we all understand what we're talking about there? I gave you a bunch of scripture to verify all that stuff, so I really hope you guys were able to write that stuff down. If you didn't, just shoot me an email. I'll send them to you. No problem. Isaac was prepared to be offered as a picture of one to come. The lord Jesus Christ was offered for you. So my question is, have you received that offering? And if you have, you have assurance of eternal life and forgiveness of sin.
Alright. Let's pray. Our heavenly father, we wanna thank you, Lord, for today. We wanna thank you for the blessings that you pour out on us each and every day. Father, I wanna thank you so much for all of those that are watching, listening, and I pray, Lord, that, the message was clear to them today. I know it could be a little bit confusing talking about, imputed righteousness and justification and the difference between how it how it was for Abraham and how it is for us today. But, God, I hope and I pray that, that I was able to to, explain that to them in a way that was easy for them to understand.
Father, I pray that you would just touch each and every one under the sound of my voice today, and I pray father that if there's any that does not know Jesus Christ, that today they would call upon him and be saved. And father, I pray that you would move them to let us know if that's a decision that they make, so that we can rejoice with them and pray with them, and be thankful for that tremendous gift. Father, we thank you again for the week that you've given us, and we pray for the week ahead. And father, we just pray that, you give us an opportunity to glorify your son, in Jesus name. Amen. Alright.
Well, I know I threw a lot at you today. There was a lot of ground to cover, and, but we got through it somehow, someway. And, I hope it was a blessing to you, and I hope it was something that, that answered your questions or any questions you might have had regarding salvation or that particular period of time, especially when it comes to Abraham and and the land that, that that God gave Abraham and to his seed. So, so folks, if you have any questions about that, please let me know. Drop a line and, drop a comment or, send me an email. Let me know, what you're thinking, and, be happy to answer the question. Alright, folks. Don't forget to head over to our website, joeroos.com.
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Cold open: poetry fragments and setup
Welcome from Asylum Studios and show intro
Bible Study Sunday kickoff and recent show recap
Series review: tracing dispensations and the crowns
From Babel to the patriarchs: shifting to Abraham
Unconditional covenant with Abraham vs. works covenants
Kingdom of heaven vs. kingdom of God preview
Scope of the patriarchal dispensation: Abraham to Exodus
Isaiah 41 and Abraham as ruler—crown and covenant
Romans 4 reading: faith, grace, and imputed righteousness
East to West: biblical patterns and historical asides
Called out by faith: separating for God despite cost
Covenant of grace and the struggle with Satan
Genesis 15: land promise from Nile to Euphrates
Losing and regaining the land: Solomon and the future
Millennial views: premillennial, postmillennial, amillennial
Kingdom without the King? Critique of man-centered plans
Replacement theology and who owns the land
Quoting Catholic sources and the Balfour context
Why attack Israel? Seed, crown, and dominion conflict
Temporary loss, future fertility, and the Dead Sea changed
Abraham’s two-stage salvation: imputation and justification
James 2 vs. Romans 4: audience and reconciliation
Testing faith: Isaac on the altar and the acid test
Genesis 22: walking alone, faith in resurrection
Truths about sacrifice: from types to fulfillment
Invitation and prayer: receiving the offering of Christ
Closing notes, church info, and week-ahead schedule
Final sign-off and farewell
