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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 72
THE BIG PICTURE (CONTINUED ...)
PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE - 1
I Cor. 9:17; Eph. 1:10; Eph. 3:2; Col. 1:25
It’s good to see everybody in this afternoon. For those of you joining us on television, we’re just a simple Bible Study. We don’t hold to any denominational line. We’re just going to teach the Book the way we feel the Spirit leads us to teach it, and evidently it is working. We’re getting response from every imaginable background you can think of, and they all tell me pretty much the same thing. “Les, it isn’t you. It’s the Word.” Especially as we put it on the screen. So, we do thank every one of you out there for your prayers and your letters and for everything that makes this ministry work.
All right, for those of you here in the studio, we’ve already turned to Ephesians chapter 3. We’re going to pick up where we left off in our last four programs. For a quick review now, remember that we’re going to be moving to the place where we can hopefully show beyond a shadow of a doubt that we can rest on a pre-tribulation out-calling of the church, which we call the Rapture.
Now, one of the big arguments that they throw at me is – “Well, the word Rapture isn’t even in the Bible.” And you know what I say? Neither is the word Trinity. Neither is the word Sovereign. But do we use them? All the time, and same way with the word Rapture. It is in the Roman Catholic Vulgate, not that that makes it any more secure, but nevertheless they translated the caught up in I Thessalonians chapter 4 as raptura from which, I guess, the English got the word Rapture. But anyhow, we’re not showing it just from one or two verses. We’re going to use however many programs it takes to show the big picture. And that’s what I’m always referring to, that we have to look at the big picture. How did all these things come about that bring us to a necessity of an out-calling of the Body of Christ before God picks up again His dealing with the Nation of Israel?
As I pointed out then in our last taping, in those first four programs, you cannot recognize this unless you look at the Scriptures dispensationally. Which, of course, a lot of these covenant people despise. They almost hate it. But that’s their problem not mine, because the only viable way to study is to “rightly divide the Scriptures,” not just between Malachi and Matthew, but we divide the Scriptures between the various dispensations when God dealt differently with the human race over different periods of time. That’s the whole idea of dispensational teaching: how did God deal with humanity? I always start out with Adam and Eve in the Garden. It’s the simplest and the easiest dispensation to describe.
He placed them in the Garden, and He gave them a set of directions. Just like a pharmacist puts it on the bottle when you get your prescription, you’ve got a parallel there. A dispensation is like a dispensing of a prescription. Well, what good is a prescription if it doesn’t have directions? And the same way with a dispensation, when God established a dispensation, He gave a set of directions.
Now, coming back to Adam and Eve, again, their set of directions was simple, of that one tree you shall not eat. The rest are yours to enjoy. But of that one tree you shall not eat. That was it. But they couldn’t even follow that! It wasn’t long until Satan hoodwinked them, and they ate of the tree. Well, that ended that dispensation with a judgment, which was the expulsion out of the Garden. And you start up with another dispensational program. It was that way up through human history. God has dealt at different times, under different circumstances with different sets of directions.
All right, now Moses and the Children of Israel came to Mount Sinai, and God put them under the Law. Basically from the Ten Commandments and everything that was associated with it. For 1,500 years, a much longer time than Adam and Eve in the Garden, but for 1,500 years Israel lived and practiced under the Law. And again it was a set of directions.
Well, when they rejected everything that God had promised under that dispensation, which was really the coming of their Messiah to be their King. Instead of recognizing and taking Him and trusting Him as their King, they did what? They crucified Him. They killed Him, and of course that precipitated a judgment which ended with the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in A.D 70, and Israel was sent out into a dispersion that took them to every nation under heaven. None excepted.
But that was exactly what prophecy said would happen. But prophecy also said that after they’d been scattered to every nation under heaven, what would God do? He would bring them back, and of course we’ve seen that happen in our lifetime.

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