Do you seek to know the future? Are you one who thinks that by some supernatural power you can know what tomorrow holds for you? Are you one that finds himself reading the horoscope to find out the days events to get an edge on others? Millions of dollars are spent each year by people seeking to know the things of tomorrow. These people are those who have no surety or hope of tomorrow. The Bible teaches us that there are forces that work within these traps to lead us away from the truth. They do this by giving us just enough of the truth to make us have confidence in what is being said or done. The Bible tells us in Matthew 6:34 “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof”. Many church members, denominations, and Christians do not know what God’s time table of events to come is. This is a serious problem. The lack of knowledge is a tool for the devil’s use. There are many today that are teaching and preaching a corrupt message concerning events to come. We will take this time, with the aid of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God, and enlighten what the Bible teaches us about God’s plan for tomorrow by taking each event and placing it within the proper sequence it will occur, the place of the event, and who will be affected by it.
Before we can begin our study of God’s time table for the future, we must first make distinctions between different people through the Bible. This will help in determining who will be affected.
The first group of people we need to define are the Children of Israel, and to look at this we need to look at two main promises or covenants made with these people. The first man in this new race of people according to one Jewish historian “With Abram an entirely new period may be said to begin. He was to be the ancestor of a new race in whom the Divine promises were to be preserved, and through whom they would finally be realized” (Edersheim, “Bible” 53). With Abraham, we have the start of this great nation. It is important to see God’s unconditional covenant made with Abraham concerning the Children of Israel. This covenant binds God to a certain course of action. This covenant can be found first stated in Genesis 12:1-3, and again in Genesis 13:14-17, 15:1-21 and 17:1-18. The Abrahamic covenant is the bases of all the covenants made with the Children of Israel. Pentecost has stated it in this way:
Next week we will be looking at several other groups we find in the Bible. It is necessary for us to identify these people to better understand prophecy in the Bible.
Pastor David Flood
Works Cited
Edersheim, Alfred. Bible History Old Testament. “The World before the Flood and the
History of the Patriarchs” book 1. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1995.
Pentecost, J. Dwight. Things to Come. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1964.
