970 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 81 - Daniel's Prayer and Prophecy - 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 81 DANIEL’S PRAYER AND PROPHECY - 2 Daniel 9:3-24 Okay, good to see you all back from a coffee break. For those of you out in television, we just want to welcome you to an informal Bible study. Now I know I say it almost every program. But you’ve got to remember, new people are coming in every day, and we have to make them aware that we’re not just a bunch of kooks. We just love to study the Word! And it’s catching on. My, I wish you could read our mail. Which reminds me—again, thank you to those of you out in television for your kind letters, your encouragement, and, again, for your financial help. My, I get newsletters from several other ministries; and they’re all crying for help, and they’re cutting back. So far…so far—I just asked the girls again yesterday, “How did we end up with the month of May?” Right on. And that’s all we can hope for. So again, thank you every one of you out there and for your prayers. My goodness, prayer makes all the difference in the world. All right, right back to where we left off in Daniel chapter 9 in verse 5. I want to use it again, because I’ve got a Scripture reference that I’d like to bring in on this one. So if you’re with me in Daniel chapter 9 verse 5, where Daniel is now in his prayer to Jehovah. Daniel 9:5 “We have sinned, (as the Nation) and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:” All right, let’s go back to II Chronicles. All the way back to that book of history, to the last chapter. And that can be your crutch if you want to share these things with people. The last chapter of II Chronicles and you can jump in at verse 15. We have exactly the scenario for which Daniel is praying for forgiveness. Now maybe this is an appropriate time to remind all of us: I know that what God says to Israel has no direct bearing on us today, except as we learn from it. But you know, as I’ve said before when I taught Daniel way, way back in consort with Revelation—to a certain degree we can set America right up beside all of this, even though we not the Chosen Nation. We’re certainly not Israel. But we have been so singularly blessed like no other nation under Heaven has ever been blessed, and primarily because from day one, even though they may not have been totally born-again believers, yet all the people responsible for making America get off the ground and become such a nation is because it was always God-centered. We were a God-fearing people. I’ll never forget, years ago my Dad was telling me that when he first, as a kid of ten years old, came up to our part of northern Iowa, it was still pretty much the frontier. But he rehearsed with me one day—we were talking about it—how that the first thing, not only the Baptists, but the Lutherans and the Methodists, they all got together so that they could build some kind of a building where they could share and hold their worship services. That was the most paramount thing. Not the bars. Not the other garbage that Hollywood likes to make you think made up the West Frontier. But the first thing that was pre-eminent was a place of worship. That was the mentality of America all the way up through our history. Now granted, we had a lot of ungodly people along with it. You know, I’m always quoting Tocqueville, the French historian who traveled America, I think probably, I don’t remember exactly, but I think between 1900 and World War II. When he got back to France and wrote his book on history, he said that the reason America is so blessed is because America is populated by good people. Well, what made them good? Their worship. Their putting God at least in a place of reverence. All right, so I can’t help but feel that we’re going to come under the same kind of chastisement. In fact, I think Billy Graham, if I’m not mistaken. I don’t like to quote people unless I’m sure, but I’m quite sure Billy Graham made the statement a long time ago—I’m going to say way back in the early 80’s. He was decrying how fast we were going down the tube spiritually. And he made this statement: “Unless America repents, Sodom and Gomorrah will rise up and tell God He’s not fair.” So judgment is going to come. And I have to feel this in the back of my thinking as I teach these things concerning God’s dealing with a rebellious nation like Israel. Hey, we’re going to come under that same wrath some day. I’ve said it before on the program. I’m not saying anything new—that when God judges America, it’s going to be like no other nation has ever been judged, because we have been given so much responsibility. Churches on every corner—you know, I shared with one of my classes here in Oklahoma. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible