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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 54
James 3:7 - 5:20
All right, we’re going to continue right where we left off in the letter by James to the Hebrew believers – to the Twelve tribes scattered abroad. Now, we’ve got to remember, where did these Jews come from, and who are these people that these little epistles are addressed to.
James and Peter and John and Jude and, to a degree even, John’s Book of Revelation were written to the Jews that had been scattered. Now you want to remember that Israel has been out there as a people scattered throughout the then known world ever since the Babylonian invasion in 606 BC. Now come back to James and let’s stop with James chapter 1 verse 1, and this just says it all. Plain English.
James 1:1
"James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to (and I don’t think we do any harm by putting ‘writing’ rather than ‘to’) the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting." So now back to James chapter 4 where we left off in our last lesson. James 4:12a
Now come back with me a few pages to Hebrews chapter 7 verse 25. Hebrews 7 verse 25, here’s the saving side:
Hebrews 7:25
Those) that come unto God by him. Here we have the Great White Throne Judgment for the lost. And these are the two concepts that James is putting in front of his people. "How can a God of love send anybody to such an awful place?" All right, so now then, in Revelation 20, you do have the ability and the wherewithal of God to destroy those who are lost. Revelation 20:11-12a
12. And I saw the dead, (now remember there are no believers involved in here. This is all the unbelieving from Cain to the end) small and great, stand before God; (the Righteous Judge) and the books (plural)were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life:…" When their name was not in the book of life, He then opens up the books, which included their works. That’s what Paul calls fruit unto death. They lived a life of sin and rebellion, which was a life of fruit unto death and here it comes.
Revelation 20:12b-13
All right, and so they were judged every man individually. How in the world will God have time to bring every individual lost person before the bar of justice? God will judge the billions of the human race in what we would call a matter of minutes, and yet everyone is going to have a time before Him. All right, now verse 14, and see what James means when he says that God is able to save and to destroy?
Revelation 20:14
"And death and hell (that is the compilation of all the lost of the ages) were cast into the lake of fire. Now people don’t want to hear about the Lake of Fire anymore. It’s in the Book. Remember physical death was their first death and now spiritual death is their second death. Then verse 15 puts the cap on it.
Revelation 20:15
"And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." Revelation 20:10a
Revelation 20:10b
James 4:12
There is one eternal God. We have that right. None of us can - only God can do that. James 4:13
Now remember the Lord Himself is not betraying the secret that time is going to be interrupted and that these people to whom He’s speaking will not see the Tribulation and the Second Coming. Matthew 24:37-38
Life was going on. Matthew 24:40
Now come back to James again. This is the same scenario that, as the Tribulation is approaching and these Jewish believers are going to be coming under pressure, yet you have that element of either unbelievers or carnal believers (whatever the case James is dealing with), and all they’ve got on their minds is what? Material gain. James 4:14
For what is your life? Well, that’s life. I’ve had a few people in my classes that were 100 – 102. All right, so James is reminding his flock, don’t get so concerned about the material world because it’s just here today and gone tomorrow.
James 4:15
James 4:16a
"But now ye rejoice in your boastings:…" I hope I got that word out right. They’re great philanthropists. James 4:16
James 4:17
sin."
All right, now, lest you think I’ve been pushing the envelop on this, look at the first verse of chapter 5. James 5:1
rich men, (See? These Jews, a lot of them, had wealth.) When the Tribulation would hit. Not only just for Israel and the Jews but for the whole human race – the wrath of God is coming! All right, Jeremiah chapter 25 verse 30. Jeremiah 25:30
Not just Israel. Verse 31.
Jeremiah 25:31-32a
WMD. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Everybody wants weapons of mass destruction. Tremendous wind. Jeremiah 25:33
The earth is going to be utterly annihilated through the wrath of God, but He’ll use a lot of these weapons of mass destruction.

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