Anchors of Truth

God's Covenant Completed

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Participants: Ralph Ringer

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00:12 Welcome to Anchors Of Truth, live from Surprise, Arizona.
00:21 And we welcome you to the last of our series of programs.
00:25 For this particular Anchors, we welcome you to Surprise, Arizona
00:29 to the beautiful Clearview Seventh-day Adventist Church,
00:32 and to what we suspect will be a wonderful presentation
00:37 by Ralph Ringer, who we will introduce
00:38 to you in just a moment.
00:40 I need to say a very special "thank you" to
00:42 Pastor Murrell Tull and his lovely wife, Ginger,
00:46 who have been such gracious hosts,
00:48 and to everyone here.
00:50 Thank you all for forcing me to open my belt one more notch
00:56 during potluck.
00:58 What a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful dinner.
01:01 And someone said we weren't going to have enough food,
01:04 and I think this is the first time I hear the pastor actually
01:06 forcing people to go back and do seconds.
01:09 He had to beg us to go back.
01:10 And we went back and had seconds, and there was
01:13 still extra food left.
01:14 So Pastor, thank you so very much.
01:15 And to all of the cooks who supplied that wonderful food,
01:21 I thank you, my crew thanks you, the directors thank you,
01:24 and everybody thanks you.
01:25 You did a fabulous, fabulous job.
01:27 So we say "welcome" to you, those of you here.
01:29 We have a very nice audience this afternoon.
01:32 And to those of you watching around the world.
01:34 This has been a very blessed time of messages
01:38 from really anointed speakers.
01:41 And we get to see and experience a little different perspective
01:45 on the gospel from those who were once of the
01:49 Jewish persuasion and now who have come and added
01:52 Christ to the mix and become Hebrew Christians,
01:56 and those who are working for and with them.
01:59 And that is why we really do this particular Anchors.
02:02 And we're going to make it kind of an annual thing,
02:04 to try to sensitize the world that there is a great work
02:07 to be done among our Jewish brothers.
02:09 And we certainly want to give them an opportunity
02:12 to know about Christ and receive Christ before Christ returns.
02:17 Our message this morning was another fine message
02:20 by our friend, Sasha.
02:22 We should call him, Alexander Bolotnikov.
02:24 We call him, Sasha.
02:26 The Ukrainian accent not withstanding,
02:29 we understood you well, Sasha.
02:30 And he is a great speaker, and really just a great person.
02:34 A fun guy to be with, he loves to laugh.
02:36 He loves the Lord, and really an intelligent guy.
02:40 and a great preacher of the Word.
02:42 This afternoon, our message will be coming to us from
02:45 Ralph Ringer, who is the Director of
02:48 North American Division Jewish Ministries.
02:50 And he's the fellow that sort of stirs the drink for all of this.
02:54 And we sort of saved him for last for this afternoon.
02:59 I wanted to say also, we have met a number of people here
03:03 who have either come to the church through 3ABN,
03:06 come back to the church through 3ABN,
03:09 come to Adventism through 3ABN.
03:11 I have a couple of names, I talked with Keith a bit ago.
03:13 Where is Keith? Keith, Keith, Keith.
03:15 There he is, sitting there. He is a Bermudian.
03:18 And he spent some time in the wilderness.
03:20 And 3ABN was instrumental in his return.
03:22 We had a chance to talk.
03:24 And Vonne sitting right there in front of me,
03:25 also she mentioned to me.
03:27 And there was someone else here who 3ABN was sort of
03:30 instrumental in coming back to the Lord.
03:33 And we love to hear those stories.
03:35 Because it lets us know that we're fulfilling God's mission
03:38 to encourage those who are in the faith,
03:41 but also to go out and reach those who are not in the faith.
03:44 And that is a blessing to us.
03:46 Got a chance to meet Peter all the way from Australia.
03:49 Married an American girl and she dragged him all the way from
03:51 Perth in western Australia here to Phoenix, Arizona.
03:55 So that was fun also.
03:58 What a wonderful congregation you have, Pastor.
04:00 And it has been a pleasure for us to be here,
04:02 and a pleasure for us to get to know some of you.
04:06 I'm going to ask Pastor to come and have our
04:10 prayer for this afternoon.
04:11 Then after he shall have prayed, we get the
04:14 other half of the duo.
04:16 His lovely wife, Ginger, will sing for us,
04:19 let's see, The Body and Blood.
04:22 And then the next voice you will hear will be that of
04:24 our speaker, our friend, Dr. Ralph Ringer,
04:27 who is the Director of North American Division
04:30 Jewish Ministries.
04:32 He's going to be speaking on, God's Covenant Completed.
04:36 And we praise God for that.
04:38 Pastor.
04:39 Shall we pray.
04:41 Loving Father, You are our God.
04:46 You're the God of the universe, and You know our name.
04:51 We thank You for doing all that You do for each of us.
04:57 We do not know what we would do without the Holy Spirit
05:02 guiding us each day, each moment.
05:06 So we thank You for the Holy Spirit guiding us.
05:11 Now we pray that as we continue the message for the Jewish work,
05:18 we pray that they too around the world
05:21 will hear this message some way.
05:24 You know the way in which they need to hear it.
05:28 So may it be visible to them all.
05:32 Again we thank You for Jesus,
05:34 that He died that we may have eternal life.
05:37 So today bless us and keep us.
05:41 In Jesus name I pray, amen.
06:09 Fifty year ago today she gave her only child away
06:18 to live a life easy to regret.
06:26 Years went by, how time has flown,
06:30 her days are mostly spent alone;
06:34 daring to remember, hoping to forget.
06:48 This is My body broken for you;
06:57 for all you've been, and all you've been through.
07:08 And this is My blood;
07:15 and when you've reached the end,
07:21 I promise you again the body and blood.
07:40 He fought a war against his will;
07:45 truth be known, he's fighting still.
07:49 He looks for hope through narrow blood-shot eyes.
07:57 He slips into a polished pew and he lingers for an hour or two;
08:05 sometimes it feels better to sit and cry a while.
08:19 This is My body broken for you;
08:27 for all you've been, and all you've been through.
08:36 This is My blood;
08:41 and when you've reached the end,
08:47 I promise you again the body and blood.
08:58 And one by one we take the common cup,
09:06 and we remember as we lift it up:
09:16 This is My body broken for you;
09:26 for all you've been, and all you've been through.
09:34 This is My blood;
09:39 and when you've reached the end,
09:46 I offer you again the body and blood.
09:56 This is My blood;
10:00 and when you've reached the end,
10:07 I offer you again the body and blood.
10:39 Amen, amen.
10:45 What a beautiful song beautifully sung.
10:49 God's Covenant Completed.
10:54 In this series, we have been looking at the covenant.
11:00 In fact, there were many covenants
11:02 throughout the Scripture.
11:05 And when we look at God's covenant, we want to realize,
11:10 first of all, some definitions of what a covenant is like.
11:14 We're going to see God's covenant is all of the above.
11:20 And I believe we have it on the screen over here.
11:24 It is a league, an alliance, an agreement,
11:36 a promise or promises, a commitment,
11:44 relationship.
11:47 And the ultimate relationship of a marriage.
11:56 God's covenant are all the above.
12:01 God brought a covenant.
12:04 I want us to look, and I want you to take a look at this
12:07 on the screen here.
12:09 Some of you can't see it as well.
12:11 But God's covenant bridges the two creations.
12:18 In fact, the Bible, the first two chapters and the
12:23 last two chapters of the Bible are bookends
12:29 for the covenant in the great controversy.
12:31 Let me share with you why.
12:33 In Genesis chapter 1 and 2, we have God making
12:38 a perfect creation.
12:42 Then in Genesis chapter 3 sin comes in.
12:47 But God starts His covenant right there in Genesis 3:15,
12:52 that He gave that promise.
12:55 He starts that bridge between that first creation
13:00 and the ultimate creation in Revelation chapter 21
13:05 and chapter 22.
13:07 The great controversy starts right there
13:10 in Genesis chapter 3.
13:12 The great controversy on this earth, I'm speaking of.
13:17 And then it goes all the way through to
13:20 Revelation chapter 19 and 20 where God brings an end
13:26 to Satan, sin, and sinners.
13:32 Fast forward to Revelation chapter 21 and chapter 22.
13:39 We find that God makes a new heaven and a new earth.
13:44 The New Jerusalem descents down on earth.
13:48 We have the new earth is actually better than the
13:54 original creation because God's throne is there
13:58 and the New Jerusalem is there.
14:02 The new earth becomes the capital of the universe.
14:09 We have the marriage of the Lamb.
14:13 We have God lives with His people and they see His face.
14:19 We sing the hymn, "Face to face,"
14:22 oh wait a minute, "with Christ my Savior."
14:24 We will see Him face to face.
14:31 And God's name is on our foreheads.
14:37 You see, the purpose of the covenant
14:41 is to restore the image of God into fallen mankind.
14:48 And they become His spiritual bride for eternity.
14:56 His name is on their forehead.
14:58 We are His people.
15:01 That's how the covenant ends.
15:04 In fact, all the covenants...
15:06 And so far we've seen various covenants.
15:13 Sasha and Jeff, Alan, have referred to different covenants.
15:19 In fact, some people get hung up on the old covenant,
15:22 on the new covenant, on this covenant.
15:25 And there are many of them throughout the Bible.
15:27 If we could remember one thing, all the covenants, the purpose
15:32 is to someway draw fallen humanity back to God.
15:38 That's the bottom line of all the covenants.
15:42 And that is the ultimate completion.
15:44 But now let's go through and see where God starts His covenants.
15:48 There in the Garden of Eden, the promise.
15:52 Genesis chapter 3 verse 15, "And I will put enmity between
15:56 you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers.
16:01 And He will crush your head, and you will strike His heal."
16:08 Now all these pronouns is basically saying,
16:12 and the woman was the symbol from the very beginning
16:16 of God's people.
16:18 From the Garden of Eden right on through,
16:21 we'll see, through Revelation.
16:24 And so, through the Seed of the woman,
16:26 and that Seed of the woman, this is the first
16:29 Messianic prophecy of the Scripture in Genesis 3:15.
16:34 The promise that... Yeah, Satan...
16:37 The "He" here, that Seed, the "He" that is capitalized
16:42 as you see, that is Jesus crushing the head
16:47 of the serpent who is Satan.
16:51 And even though His heal would be struck,
16:55 He was going to have to face Calvary
16:57 to crush the head of the serpent.
17:00 But here is the first Messianic prophecy.
17:05 In Genesis chapter 9 and verse 16, after the flood,
17:10 we find that here in that verse, it says,
17:14 "The rainbow shall be in the cloud,
17:16 and I will look on it to remember the everlasting
17:21 covenant between God and every living creature
17:26 of all flesh that is on the earth."
17:30 Notice, it is the everlasting covenant.
17:35 God doesn't want a one night stand.
17:40 God doesn't want a temporary relationship.
17:45 He wants an everlasting relationship with us.
17:49 And the everlasting covenant that He gave,
17:53 He doesn't back up on His word.
17:58 Sometimes we back up on our word,
18:00 but He never backs up on His.
18:04 And so what we see...
18:05 Now notice, when it says, "the everlasting covenant
18:10 between God and..." What?
18:13 What does it say?
18:15 "...every living creature..."
18:17 Have you ever realized that God's covenant
18:19 goes beyond mankind to all the animals.
18:23 Sin has brought all the death and the pain, and all the rest,
18:29 on the animals as well as the people on earth.
18:34 God is going to take care of all of His creatures,
18:39 including the animals.
18:41 And He says, "Look, the whole world will never be
18:45 destroyed by a flood again."
18:46 The rainbow is the evidence of that covenant.
18:51 And we still see rainbows today, don't we.
18:54 And so Leviticus chapter 24 verse 8, here is a different
19:00 angle of the covenant.
19:02 The other night, Jeff was pointing out how that
19:05 the Sabbath and those things that are eternal,
19:07 those are the things before sin.
19:09 And the Sabbath, in Genesis chapter 2 verses 1 to 3,
19:13 was given before sin.
19:14 But through the covenants, the Sabbath took on
19:18 an even closer role in the sense that it shows that same God
19:23 that created and that same Sabbath that was given
19:27 at creation as a sign of the relationship
19:30 between God and His people.
19:33 It's precious.
19:34 It's kind of like when you're separated from your spouse
19:39 or your loved one, and that special, whatever special
19:42 symbols or times that you have, even grow a little closer
19:46 as you long to see them.
19:49 And so the Sabbath was given here, it says,
19:52 "Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord..."
19:56 Talking about special things they were to do on this Sabbath
19:59 to show the relationship that started from the Garden of Eden.
20:04 And being taken from the children of Israel
20:07 by an everlasting covenant.
20:10 Again, here we see the everlasting covenant for Israel.
20:15 That covenant of Israel is not broken by God.
20:22 Some Israelites might go another way, but God
20:25 stays with them for eternity.
20:28 Stays with us eternally.
20:30 We don't have to worry if God loves us,
20:35 if God wants to save us, if He cares about us most.
20:39 Even the very hairs of our heads are numbered.
20:42 You see, God cares and He has covenanted that He's going to go
20:48 with us through eternity.
20:50 And all the covenants, and especially this everlasting
20:54 covenant, that is behind it all.
20:58 And as Sasha so ably pointed out this morning,
21:01 the covenant and atonement are one and the same.
21:06 They are together in this.
21:09 That atonement is the reason for that covenant.
21:18 The atonement; to save mankind.
21:24 As we look on, now we're going to turn.
21:28 God's answer to Daniel's prayer.
21:32 We don't have enough time, I'm just going through
21:35 the things in the Scripture.
21:36 We can't give a detailed description.
21:39 But you remember, Daniel, after he had the vision in
21:43 Daniel 8:14 about the 2300 days, he was thinking
21:47 some way those 70 years of Jeremiah that he understood
21:51 was going to be lengthened.
21:52 He didn't understand.
21:54 In fact, he got sick and he's praying
21:55 for his sins and the sins of Israel.
21:58 And so then we find God's answer to Daniel's prayer
22:04 was the Messiah.
22:07 And when we look, Daniel 9 is all about Jesus Christ
22:16 our Messiah.
22:18 It is the most complete Messianic prophecy
22:22 in the Scriptures.
22:24 And by the way, more Jews have come to accept Jesus
22:30 as their Jewish Messiah from Daniel 9:24-27
22:38 than any other portion of the Bible.
22:42 When we look and understand Daniel 9:24...
22:48 Now I have put, if you look on the screen,
22:50 I have put the numbers in parentheses.
22:53 And sometimes I will change the color of the letters there
23:00 and underline it.
23:01 I won't change the words though.
23:03 In Daniel 9:24 we have, it says, "Seventy weeks are determined
23:09 for your people and for your holy city..."
23:12 So Gabriel was sent from God to tell Daniel
23:16 what this vision of the 2300 days should mean.
23:21 And we are only going to look at the first 70 weeks of that
23:25 just briefly right now.
23:28 But notice those numbers.
23:30 Those numbers, there are six of them here,
23:33 there are six prepositional phrases in Daniel 9:24
23:38 that all apply to the Messiah.
23:41 All the verbs of 9:24 apply to the Messiah in these six.
23:48 And so let's notice, number one,
23:51 "...to finish the transgression..."
23:53 Jesus stopped the rebellion of mankind.
23:57 Sin is a rebellion against God.
24:00 And Jesus was the first one, He stopped that process.
24:04 He was totally in harmony with the Father.
24:07 Number two, "...to make an end of sins..."
24:10 He was the first one to end...
24:17 Any person after Adam and Eve fell, He was the first one
24:23 to live the perfect life.
24:24 He was tempted in all points, and yet without sin.
24:28 Number three, "...to make reconciliation for iniquity..."
24:32 He is the one that reconciles.
24:34 Sin separated God and man.
24:37 And He is the one that died for those sins
24:41 and takes that separation away.
24:44 He reconciles God and mankind.
24:48 And number four, "...to bring in everlasting righteousness..."
24:52 He lived the perfect life before He died the perfect death.
24:58 And His righteousness, by righteousness by faith,
25:02 we can have His righteousness.
25:06 We are saved by His blood and by His life.
25:11 And then number five, "...to seal up vision and prophecy..."
25:16 It ratifies all of the prophecies,
25:22 the Messianic prophecies.
25:23 You look at all the hundreds of prophecies
25:26 about the Messiah, and He fulfilled them all.
25:31 He made all of them come to pass.
25:36 In fact, He even told John the Baptist when He asked
25:41 to be baptized, and John said, "Well, I need to
25:44 be baptized of You."
25:45 And He said, "It's necessary to fulfill all righteousness."
25:52 To fulfill the promise.
25:53 He understood that He was fulfilling all of these things.
25:59 And then number six, "...to anoint the Most Holy."
26:03 Things were anointed, and especially the Most Holy
26:06 in the Sanctuary service.
26:07 Every part of that Sanctuary service; the building,
26:11 the furniture, all the sacrifices,
26:14 were all pointing to the One who came.
26:17 The Messiah means, Anointed One.
26:20 In fact, His name "Immanuel" means, "God with us."
26:25 And God was with us in the Most Holy Place.
26:28 And the symbol of His throne, the ark of His covenant,
26:32 was there; and it all symbolized Jesus, the Messiah.
26:38 Now those six prepositional phrases, we're going to
26:41 get to the antecedent to them in just a moment.
26:44 If we go on to verse 25, "Know therefore and understand,
26:49 that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and
26:52 to build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince,
26:56 there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;
27:00 the street shall be built again, and the wall,
27:03 even in troublesome times."
27:04 Now by the way, Ezekiel 4:6, you see there in the parentheses,
27:08 Ezekiel 4:6 and Numbers 14:34 point out each day for a year.
27:14 I don't have time to go through that apocalyptic literature,
27:19 each day equals a year.
27:20 Well in verse 26, it says, "And after the sixty-two weeks
27:24 Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself."
27:28 So what we have is, we have seven weeks.
27:32 It was going to take 49 years for the city of Jerusalem
27:37 to be rebuilt.
27:38 And then go on another sixty-two weeks
27:41 until the Messiah the Prince.
27:43 I want you to notice three times, anoint the Most Holy,
27:47 Messiah the Prince, and Messiah cut off.
27:50 All three of those are about the Messiah.
27:52 And by the way, three is a number that is used for God.
27:56 And so, "Messiah cut off," this is referring to
28:00 Him as the Savior.
28:01 "Messiah the Prince," it's referring to Him as King.
28:05 And we're going to see more of that.
28:07 And Daniel 9:24-27 is the Messianic covenant
28:12 for the Jews and is the answer that Gabriel brought from God
28:17 to show Daniel how the people would be saved
28:24 and how their belief and their faith of the Messiah
28:30 would materialize in Jesus Christ.
28:34 And it was all about that.
28:35 Well let's go on and notice the 70 weeks.
28:38 If you look in the prophecy, the chart there,
28:41 you see the decree, and Sasha referred to that this morning,
28:44 457 BC, and he gave some of the background to such.
28:49 You had seven weeks plus the sixty-two;
28:53 a total of sixty-nine weeks.
28:55 That brought it up to His baptism.
28:57 And by the way, that's when He was anointed of the Holy Spirit,
29:01 at the baptism.
29:02 And the voice from heaven, "This is My beloved Son
29:05 in whom I'm well pleased."
29:07 And then we're going to see at the cross...
29:12 Now I believe I skipped a verse here.
29:15 Oh no, it's the next one. Okay.
29:18 And in the midst of the week He'll cause the sacrifice...
29:22 Here it is.
29:23 No.
29:25 Oh you know, that didn't get in there.
29:27 It's Daniel 9:27.
29:29 Daniel 9:27, I sent them one, and then I realized
29:33 I left this verse out.
29:34 If you have your Bible, turn to Daniel 9:27.
29:37 And you'll see that there it says, in the midst of the
29:43 covenant how He's going to have the covenant for one more week,
29:48 with many for one week.
29:49 And in the midst of the week, He will cause sacrifice,
29:53 or some translation say oblation, to cease.
29:57 Why don't we sacrifice lambs today when we worship?
30:02 Because the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ,
30:05 has died on the cross of Calvary.
30:08 We no longer need to sacrifice lambs.
30:10 All those lambs were looking forward to Him.
30:13 So in the midst of that last prophetic week,
30:18 we have the cross.
30:22 The cross is why we do not sacrifice lambs today.
30:28 And then, if we end that last week, it ends in AD 34,
30:32 that's when the gospel goes to the Gentiles.
30:35 Now if we look at Acts chapter 7...
30:38 And we're going quickly as we're going through on our way to
30:41 Revelation to see God's covenant completed.
30:46 It says there Stephen is looking up, and he sees
30:52 Jesus standing at the right hand of God, in verse 55 of Acts 7.
30:58 In verse 56, "...and said, 'Behold, I see the
31:02 heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing
31:06 on the right hand of God.'"
31:09 Now let's stop right here.
31:12 If you read the first part of Acts 7,
31:16 he tells them a lot of strong things.
31:18 He takes them through history and shows a lot how they
31:20 have rebelled against God.
31:23 They held their tongue until he says, "I see the heavens opened
31:29 and the Son of Man," that was Jesus' favorite name
31:32 for Himself, "standing on the right hand of God."
31:38 Now notice, He's standing.
31:41 They understood this.
31:42 Most of us don't really get the message.
31:45 But they understood exactly what Stephen was saying.
31:49 And notice in verses 57 and 58, "Then they cried out
31:55 with a loud voice, and stopped their ears,
31:58 and ran upon him with one accord,
32:02 and cast him out of the city, and stoned him."
32:05 That was against Jewish law and that was against Roman law.
32:09 But they couldn't stand hearing that Jesus
32:13 was standing at the right hand of God.
32:16 Now by the way, "standing;"
32:17 you will find 25 times the New Testament
32:21 refers to standing or sitting, most of the time sitting,
32:25 at the right hand of God; majesty,
32:28 various terminologies there.
32:30 But here we see Him standing.
32:33 Sitting at the right hand or the left hand,
32:36 as the disciples wanted to do to Jesus,
32:39 was showing their authority, their position.
32:43 But when they're standing, then they are putting
32:48 their authority into action.
32:51 And so Jesus is standing at the right hand of God
32:55 indicating He is now taking on that authority with action.
33:02 And so, what was he doing?
33:04 Well, let's look.
33:06 Let's look, in AD 34, at the stoning of Stephen.
33:10 They stoned him illegally.
33:14 But as we look at Acts 9 and the last part of verse 4,
33:18 "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"
33:23 This is on the road to Damascus.
33:25 "And he said, 'Who are You, Lord?'
33:28 Then the Lord said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
33:33 It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'"
33:38 Now we don't use that term anymore.
33:40 It's thorns.
33:42 Stickers. Sharp things.
33:44 In other words, yeah, like you're kicking against
33:47 a cactus out here barefooted.
33:51 You can relate to that here in Phoenix, couldn't you?
33:54 And what was He talking about?
33:57 What was He talking about?
34:00 Who had held the coats at the stoning of Stephen
34:04 and the official witness of that stoning?
34:08 It was Saul.
34:10 He had seen Stephen's face light up as an angel's face.
34:15 He had heard the words inspired by the Holy Spirit.
34:21 And it was pricking him, and he was kicking against it.
34:29 He was fighting it.
34:30 By the way, have some of you ever fought as the
34:32 Holy Spirit was trying to reach your heart?
34:35 He was fighting it, he was kicking against it.
34:37 And He said, "It's hard to do it, isn't it."
34:41 And you see, it was at the stoning of Stephen
34:46 that the apostle to the Gentiles, as he said he was
34:50 in Romans 11:13, "I am the apostle to the Gentiles."
34:57 The apostle to the Gentiles was called starting
35:00 at the stoning of Stephen; AD 34.
35:04 And he carried the gospel unto the world
35:07 as that great leader.
35:09 So now let's look at Daniel and make sure
35:12 we're putting all this picture together.
35:15 Daniel chapter 9, well let's start with chapter 2.
35:18 Daniel 2, the image was that God is in charge of leadership.
35:24 He sets them up and He takes them down.
35:27 He used an image there.
35:29 In Daniel 7, He uses beasts.
35:32 And God changes the leadership of nations,
35:36 but also dealing with spiritual things as well.
35:40 In chapter 8, He uses different beasts and more details.
35:45 And He goes through, and even more details
35:48 about the religious issues.
35:50 And, oh wait a minute, He changes leadership again.
35:57 In Daniel 9, God changes leadership in Israel.
36:03 In the covenants.
36:06 And so we're going to see that later.
36:08 But so, now the high priest and Sanhedrin, God changes
36:14 their leadership into the Messiah the Priest
36:18 and the Messiah the Prince.
36:21 So Caiaphas is no longer the high priest for God.
36:27 Jesus, the Messiah, is the High Priest for God and His people.
36:35 And the Sanhedrin council is no longer in charge
36:39 of His people.
36:42 Messiah the Prince is.
36:47 If we look on, did Jesus understand this principle?
36:51 Let's look at John 18 verse 37.
36:55 "Pilate therefore said unto Him, 'Are You the king then?'
37:00 Jesus answered, 'You say rightly that I am king.'"
37:06 And I put the numbers in here again.
37:08 Number one, "For this cause I was born..."
37:12 And number two, "...for this cause I have
37:16 come into the world..."
37:18 Now He did say, as Alan mentioned last night,
37:21 that His kingdom was not of this world.
37:23 In other words, He was not trying to overthrow Caesar.
37:25 That was not His purpose here.
37:27 That's what the Jews wanted Him to do.
37:30 That's what the Jews wanted the Messiah to do.
37:32 But that's not what He came for.
37:34 He came as King, but He came first of all as Savior.
37:39 Now He's going to come back and we're going to see
37:41 He will come as King.
37:49 Seems like the clicker is not wanting to go.
37:52 There we go.
37:53 Mark 14 verse 61, "Again the high priest..."
37:59 Now He's talking to the high priest
38:00 just before the crucifixion.
38:03 "...asked Him, saying to Him, 'Are You the Christ,
38:09 the Son of the Blessed?'
38:11 And Jesus said, 'I am.
38:13 And you will see the Son of Man sitting on the
38:18 right hand of the Power, and coming with the
38:21 clouds of heaven.'"
38:23 The right hand of the throne, or power, or of God,
38:28 or the Majesty, refers to Jesus being King.
38:33 Five times in the book of Hebrews and twenty-five times
38:38 in the New Testament it refers to Jesus
38:41 at the right hand of the Father.
38:45 Now we look at Hebrews chapter 12 verse 2.
38:51 "...looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher
38:54 of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him
38:58 endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down
39:04 on the right hand of the throne of God."
39:07 Now this goes along with Revelation 3:21.
39:11 "To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me
39:15 in My throne, as I also overcame and am sat down
39:20 with My Father on His throne."
39:23 Now let's look at Revelation 19 verses 15 and 16.
39:29 "Now out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword,
39:34 that with it He should strike the nations.
39:38 And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron.
39:42 And He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness
39:46 and the wrath of the Almighty God.
39:49 And He has on His robe and on His thigh the name written:
39:54 KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS."
39:56 And you notice, every one of those letters of that
40:00 title are capitalized.
40:01 The highest title that He has.
40:04 "KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS."
40:06 It's when He comes riding on the white horse.
40:09 It's the time that He comes now to finish up
40:13 all of the wicked and to destroy Satan, sinners, and sin
40:21 from this world.
40:23 Hebrews chapter 9 verse 11.
40:25 "But Christ came as High Priest of good things to come..."
40:30 Now go down to verse 24.
40:32 "For Christ is not entered into holy places made with hands,
40:37 which are the figures of the true, but into heaven itself,
40:42 now to appear in the presence of God for us."
40:45 Sixteen times in the book of Hebrews, Jesus is referred to
40:50 as the High Priest.
40:53 You see, what happened, this is the application of what...
40:58 By the way, the apostles had said, Stephen had said,
41:02 Jesus had said, the Bible says, when we're looking at
41:07 all of this together.
41:09 Now let's go on in verse 19.
41:12 Talking about how the High Priest enters in
41:15 the Most Holy Place behind the veil.
41:17 In verse 20, "...where the forerunner has entered for us,
41:22 even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according
41:28 to the order of Melchizedek."
41:30 This is fulfilling a Messianic prophecy of Psalm 110 verse 4.
41:38 "You are a priest forever according to the
41:42 order of Melchizedek."
41:46 Nine times in the book of Hebrews, Melchizedek is used.
41:51 It's always used in a reference of how Melchizedek
41:56 was a symbol for Jesus the Messiah.
41:59 He was a priest of the Most High God.
42:02 He was the king of Salem, which was the forerunner
42:06 of Jerusalem.
42:09 And Jesus is the High Priest and the King of the New Jerusalem.
42:17 And so we see that he was a type of Christ.
42:21 As we go on in Hebrews 7 verse 11,
42:24 "Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood
42:29 what further need was there that another priest should
42:33 rise according to the order of Melchizedek,
42:37 and not be called after the order of Aaron?
42:42 For the priesthood being changed..."
42:45 Now let's go on down to verse 14.
42:47 "For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah,
42:53 of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
42:59 And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of
43:05 Melchizedek, there arises another priest who has come,
43:11 not according to the law of a fleshly commandment,
43:14 but according to the power of an endless life.
43:19 For He testifies, 'You are a priest forever according to the
43:25 order of Melchizedek.'"
43:28 You see, Jesus' priesthood is so much better
43:31 than even that of Melchizedek.
43:34 Because He has the power of life eternal,
43:39 and giving us life eternal.
43:41 Death could not hold Him in the grave.
43:45 And He raises.
43:46 And the fact that He rose, it makes no difference
43:50 whether we live or die on this earth,
43:52 if we're in Jesus we have eternal life.
43:56 And so we go on and notice.
43:59 Now let's look at Romans, how Paul puts this in.
44:03 Romans 9 verse 2, "...that I have great sorrow
44:07 and continual grief in my heart.
44:09 For I could wish that I myself were accursed for Christ
44:14 and my brethren, and my countrymen
44:16 according to the flesh,"
44:19 in verse 4, "who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption,
44:24 the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law,
44:28 the service of God, and the promises..."
44:31 Now notice, I want you to notice the word, "covenants,"
44:34 and, "promises."
44:35 It's through Israel that the covenants especially
44:39 were shown and demonstrated so visually and emphatically.
44:45 Now in verse 5, "...from whom, according to the flesh,
44:50 Christ came, who is over all, the eternally
44:54 blessed God; amen."
44:57 Now notice who the flesh...
44:58 Who came? Christ came.
45:00 Jesus was a Jew.
45:02 And those who are against Jews and hate Jews,
45:06 well how could you be a Christian?
45:09 Jesus, the source of Christianity, was a Jew.
45:14 And he says the covenants came there,
45:16 the promises came through them.
45:17 In fact, of all the Bible writers, almost exclusively
45:22 the Bible writers under the inspiration of God were Jews.
45:25 And Paul says, "Look, all of this came through there.
45:28 Don't turn your back on your roots."
45:31 And Christ Himself came there.
45:34 As we go on in chapter 9 verse 6, "But it is not
45:38 that the word of God has taken no effect.
45:40 For they are not all Israel who are of Israel,
45:45 nor are they all children because they are the
45:49 seed of Abraham; but, 'In Isaac your seed shall be called.'"
45:54 By the way, I like that what Sasha brought out.
45:57 You know, 9/11 couldn't happen unless
46:00 first of all Abraham went into Hagar.
46:03 And that's true.
46:04 A lot of other terrorism could be added to that as well.
46:08 But then notice in verse 8, "...the children of the promise
46:13 are counted as the seed."
46:15 The children of the promise.
46:16 In fact, if we go to verse 24, "...even us whom He called,
46:21 not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?"
46:26 So it's not just a Jewish thing.
46:29 God didn't want just to save the Jews.
46:32 Even in the Old Testament they were to be a witness,
46:36 they were to be a light to the rest of the world.
46:38 Just like the church is to be a light to the rest of the world.
46:41 All the blessings aren't suppose to be just on the church.
46:44 The church is the means of getting the gospel
46:48 out to the others.
46:49 And that was true then as well.
46:51 And we're going to see how that ties in to Revelation
46:54 in just a moment.
46:55 And now notice in Romans 9 verse 27,
46:58 "Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel,
47:02 'Though the number of the children of Israel be as the
47:05 sand of the sea...'"
47:06 Read this last part with me.
47:08 "...the remnant will be saved."
47:12 I want you to notice, it says a remnant will be saved.
47:15 Now he is talking about the end of time.
47:18 Look at the very next verse, the very next phrase.
47:22 "For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
47:28 because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth."
47:33 Now this shows, and there are many from the
47:38 pen of inspiration that say these are the last people group
47:40 to be reached before Jesus comes.
47:42 Here it says the remnant will be saved,
47:44 He's going to finish the work.
47:46 It's the remnant at the finishing that he's
47:48 talking about here, isn't it?
47:50 That's the context.
47:51 And the Lord's going to make a short work out of it.
47:54 We go on in chapter 10 verse 1, "Brethren, my heart's desire
48:00 and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved."
48:06 Going on in verse 2, "...they have a zeal of God,
48:10 but not according to knowledge.
48:12 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness,
48:17 and seeking to establish their own righteousness,
48:21 have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
48:25 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness
48:29 to everyone who believes."
48:31 In other words, righteousness by faith
48:34 is the basis of salvation.
48:36 It's not how good we are, it's how good He is;
48:39 is the basis of our salvation.
48:42 And so all the lambs, all the sacrifices,
48:45 were looking to the cross.
48:47 That's what we looked at in Daniel 9
48:51 and verses 24 and right on through 27.
48:55 And the righteousness of Christ is what, His righteousness,
49:00 is what will give us righteousness now
49:03 and for eternity.
49:04 It's His righteousness that covers our sins,
49:07 that washes away our sins, and empowers us to
49:10 overcome our sins.
49:12 Now notice 2 Corinthians 5:19, "...God was in Christ
49:19 reconciling the world to Himself..."
49:23 You remember the reconciling?
49:25 That was one of the lines of the prepositional phrases.
49:29 God was in Christ reconciling the world.
49:33 It's through His sacrifice, it's through His atonement,
49:37 it's through His covenant, that we are saved.
49:41 Now let's notice in Hebrews chapter 8 verse 10.
49:45 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the
49:48 house of Israel:
49:50 I will put My laws in their mind and write them
49:53 in their hearts; and I will be their God,
49:56 and they shall be My people."
49:59 Here is the new covenant.
50:01 It was prophesied in Jeremiah.
50:03 Here we have it, in saying that it's going to be,
50:07 and it's at the end time.
50:10 Now as we go on, and notice in chapter 13 of Hebrews,
50:15 verses 20 and 21, "...through the blood of the
50:18 everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work
50:24 to do His will..."
50:26 The everlasting covenant is complete in His blood.
50:31 And it makes us do every good work
50:35 when we accept and allow that covenant, that atonement,
50:40 that change in our life from what the Messiah has done.
50:45 Now in Romans chapter 11.
50:49 "Has God cast away His people?
50:52 Certainly not.
50:53 For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham,
50:58 of the tribe of Benjamin."
51:00 Those who say the Jews were gone after AD 34,
51:04 you know, replacement theology; hey, the Bible says,
51:08 God says certainly not.
51:09 They have not been cast away.
51:12 God doesn't cast away His people.
51:14 People leave Him, but God doesn't cast away His people.
51:17 We're teaching wrong about the character of God when we
51:20 say God throws people out.
51:22 They throw themselves out.
51:24 God doesn't throw them out.
51:25 He wants to save all of them.
51:27 But going on in verse 2, "God has not cast away His people..."
51:33 What part of that do we not understand.
51:36 He hasn't cast them away. He's talking about Israel.
51:39 And then going on, "...what the Scripture says of Elijah,
51:43 how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
51:46 'Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down
51:50 Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.'
51:56 But what does the divine response say to him?
51:59 'I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men
52:03 who have not bowed their knee to Baal.'
52:05 Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant
52:11 according to the election of grace."
52:13 There's, again, the second time "remnant" is used for Israel.
52:17 And it's used after the cross.
52:19 It's used in Paul's day.
52:21 And he says, a remnant after grace; Jewish believers.
52:25 And going on in chapter 16, you can read about the tree.
52:31 And basically what we find is, the branches were,
52:36 some branches were broken, in verse 17.
52:39 And wild olive tree branches were grafted in them.
52:44 For time's sake, we're going to go on down to verse 19.
52:47 "You may say then, 'Branches were broken off
52:50 that I might be grafted in.'
52:54 Well said.
52:55 Because of unbelief they were broken off,
52:58 and you stand by faith.
53:00 Do not be haughty, but fear.
53:02 For if God did not spare the natural branches,
53:05 He may not spare you either."
53:08 And then in verse 24, the natural branches are grafted
53:11 back into their olive tree.
53:13 Remember, the tree wasn't cut down.
53:15 And Jesus is the root.
53:17 The tree was there.
53:18 Some branches were cut off.
53:20 Wild branches were grafted in.
53:22 And then some of the original branches
53:25 were grafted back in.
53:27 Now as we look in verse 25, he says he didn't
53:33 want them to be ignorant, "lest you should be wise
53:36 in your own opinion, that blindness in part has
53:41 happened to Israel until the fullness of the
53:44 Gentiles has come in."
53:45 So Paul is saying there's blindness on much of Israel
53:49 until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.
53:52 And then we're going to find the grafting back in.
53:56 Just as we saw in chapter 9 at the end in finishing the work.
54:01 But let's go on in verse 26.
54:04 "And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written,
54:08 'The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will
54:13 turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
54:16 For this is My covenant with them,
54:19 when I take away their sins.'"
54:21 I want you to notice that all Israel being saved is
54:25 referring to all the branches; the natural and the other.
54:28 That is all Israel being saved.
54:31 It's not like some are saying, it's all the nation of Israel.
54:35 No, it's all the believers.
54:36 All the believers.
54:38 And we look now at Revelation chapter 12 and verse 17.
54:44 And I want us to look at what it says.
54:46 "And the dragon was wroth with the woman,
54:48 and went to make war with the remnant of her seed,
54:51 which keep the commandments of God and have the
54:54 testimony of Jesus Christ."
54:55 In Revelation chapter 12 we find a woman in the beginning
55:01 who bears a child, and that man-child is Jesus.
55:05 In the Old Testament, Israel was the bride
55:10 of God, wasn't it?
55:12 And we've already read in chapter 9 of Romans
55:16 that it was through Israel that Jesus was born.
55:20 But now we find that in the wilderness,
55:24 this is the church.
55:26 The two become one to make this final remnant.
55:31 What we see is happening.
55:32 And how do I know that it true?
55:34 Look at Revelation chapter 21 and verses 12 and 14.
55:40 In verse 12, the names of the twelve tribes of Israel
55:45 are over the gates of the New Jerusalem.
55:48 The names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb
55:52 are on the foundations.
55:53 Wait a minute.
55:55 On the New Jerusalem.
55:57 The names of the tribes and the names of the apostles.
56:02 You see, the final remnant are the believing Jews
56:08 and the believing Gentiles together;
56:11 make up the final remnant.
56:13 And that is God's completed covenant where they are saved.
56:21 And what we find there in Revelation chapter 21
56:25 and verse 3, "And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying,
56:29 'Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
56:31 and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people.
56:35 And God Himself will be with them and be their God.'"
56:39 And in chapter 22, there we find, it says,
56:43 "They shall see His face, and His name shall be
56:47 on their foreheads."
56:49 This is God's covenant completed.
56:52 This is what all the covenants were working toward.
56:56 This is why the covenants were given.
57:01 To redeem all mankind.
57:04 And let's rejoice that we can be part of God's
57:10 covenant completed.
57:12 Let's pray.
57:14 Father in heaven, thank You for loving us and saving us.
57:19 Thank You for Your covenants.
57:21 And thank You that we can be the result of those covenants.
57:27 In Jesus' name we pray, amen.


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