PART ONE - GOD'S PROPHETIC WORD
A. ALL THE OLD TESTAMENT IS FULFILLED IN CHRIST.
B. THE THRUST OF OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES ( Acts 3:11-26; 26:6-7, 22-23 ).
A. THE NATURE OF PROPHECY DOES NOT ALLOW FOR POSTPONEMENT OF FULFILLMENT. BY NATURE IT MUST HAVE AN UNCHANGEABLE FULFILLMENT (Isa. 41:26; 44:28, 24-26; Deut. 18:20-22). PREMILLENIAL THOUGHT USUALLY INVOLVES SOME SORT OF POSTPONEMENT.
B. PROPHECY IS FROM GOD.
C. PROPHECY IS MIRACULOUS.
D. PROPHECY IS PREPARATORY ( Acts 3:24 ). IT HAS A THREE FOLD PURPOSE:
1. To prepare for Jesus coming ( Acts 26:22-23; Rom. 15:4 ).
2. To prepare for spiritual teachings of Jesus ( 1 Pet. 1:9-12; Luke 17:20-21 ).
3. To bear witness to the truths of Christianity ( John 5:37-39, 45-47 ).
a. The New Testament explains the Old Testament. The Jews believed the prophets, they just didn't understand them.
b. The prophecy meant what inspiration intended, not what we want it to mean or what the Jews insisted it meant. It was a message from God, a conveyance of His thought.
A. THE APOSTLES ARE THE ONLY INFALLIBLE, INSPIRED INTERPRETERS OF PROPHECY.
B. THE TRUE INTERPRETATION OF THE PROPHECIES( 1 Cor. 2:7-13 ).
1. The New Testament is a revelation of Old Testament mysteries.
2. When a New Testament writer says "this is that," THIS IS THAT!
3. The Jews rejected Christ's idea of kingdom because they refused to see Christ's unfolding of prophecies and the apostle's application. Millenialists are in the same boat.
C. THE TRUE SPHERE OF PROPHECIES( Heb. 1:1-2 ).
1. Last days are not the end of time( 2 Tim. 3:1-5 ). No reference to the end of time (Matt. 24:36). Men were already doing what Paul spoke of. Miracles of the last days were performed in Peter's day( Acts 2:16-17 )
2. God speaks NOW through his Son. Not the prophets.
D. THE TRUE HOPE OF PROPHECY( Acts 26:22-23 ). THE HOPE OF ISRAEL WAS NOT WHAT ISRAEL HOPED FOR.
E. THE TRUE PREACHING OF THE PROPHETS. NEW TESTAMENT APPLICATION AND USE WAS TO TEACH OF JESUS' DEATH ON THE CROSS, NOT TO FUTURE EVENTS( Acts 17:2-3 )
A. MOSES PROPHECIES RESTORATION. 1400 B.C. - 900 YEARS BEFORE BABYLON.
1. Deut. 4:27. Fulfilled in the last captivity.
2. Deut. 29-30. Fulfilled in the return( Lev.26:40-45; Jer.29:10-12; Neh.1:8-10 ).
B. MOSES AND JOSHUA. 1500 B.C. THE LAND.
1. Land promised( Gen. 15:18; Josh. 1:1-6 ).
2. Nothing failed( Josh. 21:43-45; 23:14-16 ).
3. Further evidence( 2 Sam. 8:2; 1 Kings 4:21; Neh. 9:7-8 ).
4. Keeping the land was conditional( Josh. 23:15-16 ).
C. SAMUEL AND DAVID'S THRONE. 1000 B.C.
1. Son on the throne while David slept( 2 Sam. 7:12-16 ).
2. Fulfilled in Jesus( Heb. 1:5; Acts 2:29-31 ).
D. DAVID'S PROPHECIES.
1. Psa. 2 - Acts 13:33; Heb. 1:5, 5:5; Acts 4:25-28.
2. Psa. 89:3-4, 27 refers to 2 Sam. 7 and Acts 2.
3. Psalm 110. "In the day of his power."
E. ISAIAH. 700 B.C., ABOUT THE TIME OF ISRAEL'S DESTRUCTION, 100 YEARS BEFORE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY.
1. Isaiah 2:2-5. The mountain of Jehovah's house and the use of figures of speech
( Ezekial 34:20-26 ).
2. Isaiah 11:1-10. The Lion and the Lamb. The Peaceable Kingdom.
3. Isaiah 55:3. The sure mercies of David( Acts 13:34 ).
4. Isaiah 64:4 - 65:17-25. Applied by Paul to the revealing of the "mystery"
( 1 Cor. 2:6-13 parallels Eph. 3:1-6 ).
F. JEREMIAH. 620 B.C., DURING THE SEIGE OF JERUSALEM.
1. Restoration prophecies( Jer. 25:11-13; 18:7-8; 42:10 ).
2. Fulfilled in Cyrus, emporer of the Medes and Persians( 2 Chron. 36:20-23;
Ezra 1:1-4 ).
G. EZEKIAL. 600 B.C.( Ez. 37 ).
1. The dry bones( vs. 1-14 ). Restoration( Ezra 1:1-4 ).
2. The two sticks( vs. 15-20 ). Their meaning( vs. 21-23 ).
a. But who shall be their king?( Hos. 13:9-11 KJV ).
b. God will be their king.
c. No physical king. The physical king born of rebellion.
3. David the loving shepherd( vs. 24-28 ).
a. Shepherd( Ez. 34:23-24; John 10 ).
b. Covenant of Peace( vs. 26; Heb. 13:20; Eph. 2:17-18; 2 Cor. 5:17 - 6:2 ).
c. Everlasting covenant( Heb. 13:20; Jer. 31:31; Heb. 8:6-13; Isa. 55:3 ).
d. Tabernacle & Sanctuary( vs. 27-28; Hosea 1 & 2; 1 Pet. 2:10; Heb. 8:10; 2 Cor. 6:16-18 ).
H. DANIEL, THROUGOUT BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY.
1. Daniel 2:31-45. A kingdom which cannot be shaken( Heb. 12:28;
Mark 1:14-15; 9:1 )(Acts 1:6-8; Col. 1:13-14; Heb. 12:28; Rev. 1:9 ).
2. Daniel 7 compared to Revelation 13. Verses 13-14 are the key.
a. vs. 13. The ascension. Where does he come on the clouds( Acts 1:9-11 ).
b. Receives dominion, glory, kingdom - When?
i. Dominion( Acts 2:36; Matt. 28:18; Eph. 1:20-23 ).
ii. Glory( John 17:5; Acts 2:33-36; Phil. 2:9-11 ).
iii. Kingdom( Dan. 2:45; Heb. 12:28; Rev. 1:9 ).
c. All peoples( Matt. 28:19-20; Acts 10:34-35; Col. 2:14-16; Luke 24:47 ).
( Gen. 12:1-3; Gal. 3:6-8, 15-16, 23-29 ).
d. Indestructable Kingdom( Heb. 12:28 ).
