Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy approaches Bible teaching with a passion for getting the basic doctrines explained so that the individual can understand them and then apply them to circumstances in their life. These basic and important lessons are nestled in a framework of history and progression of revelation from the Bible so the whole of Scripture can be applied to your physical and spiritual life.
Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
NT Framework - Stirred by a spirit
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We are so appreciative of God granting us the Holy Spirit upon salvation to help us live a godly life; there are other spirits at work in the world that we need to be keenly aware of.
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and our series on the New Testament framework. Today, a smaller, bite-sized piece from the larger lesson. We hope you enjoy it.
SPEAKER_01:So let's talk about the session. The first uh let's start this. Let's talk. I'll only put down four points because I didn't know how to put all this on PowerPoint. So I just put the four main points. The first two points mainly focus on his kingship. The last two focus on his priesthood. Jesus is a king priest. Now everybody should know this in a basic way, just from the book of Hebrews, right? But uh this is a unique type of individual that was foreshadowed by a man in the Old Testament known as Melchizedek. Remember that guy? Melchizedek, Genesis 14. Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek, and Melchizedek blessed Abraham. So there was a, and Melchizedek was a king priest. Now you know in Israel they didn't have king priests, they had priests that were separate from kings. You had a priestly line, that's the the Levites, right? Even today, if you see a Jew with the name Levi or Kohen, which is from Kohan, you know you're talking about the priestly tribe. But that was in Israel, and they separately had a kingly line. That's the line of David, right? David was not a Levite, he's from the house of Judah. So in Israel, these two offices of priest and king were kept separate. But when Jesus comes, something transpires in which he takes up the role of one who is both king and priests, which follows not the Levitical pattern, but it follows the Melchizedekian pattern. And so this is significant for the whole world because Melchizedek preceded the Jewish race, and therefore it looks at God dealing with all people. So to bring these two together in one person requires us to look at the session and understand a bit more about this king priest. Just so we don't get lost in the details. One more comment, and then we'll look at the first point, and that's that he is currently the rightful king, what I call the king de jure. De jure is Latin for legal. He is legally the king, but he's not the king de facto. In other words, he is not now the king in fact. He is not now ruling in his kingdom. Okay, so that's important to understand that he is currently in the place seated at the right hand of the Father as the rightful king, the legal king, but he's not now currently exercising that that kingship. He will return to do that on earth, right? But he is, okay, he is acting as high priest right now. So with those things said, let's look at the first point. Let's turn to Daniel chapter seven. Just before Hosea and I think after Ezekiel. Daniel chapter seven. Daniel was taken captivity to the Babylonians, right? And he was a young boy, probably no more than fifteen or sixteen, seventeen years old when he was taken. And he had enough Bible doctrine in his soul to stand up to the pressures to become a Babylonian. And uh he stood in the face of that and he rose to be the number two man in all of Babylon because he was able to continue to trust the Lord through the difficulties of living in a pagan empire. And he received lots of visions. Two of these visions are corollary or parallel, and that's chapters two and seven. Chapter two is that great dream that Nebuchadnezzar had repeatedly that he that bothered him, right? It was a metal statue with a golden head, silver chest and arms, bronze waist and thighs, and legs made of iron, with feet of iron mixed with clay, right? That great image, and then a stone would come and strike the statue at the base, and it would obliterate the whole stone, and that stone would then grow to fill the whole earth. And what it's picturing is the five kingdoms. The five kingdoms. Four Gentile kingdoms, the head of gold. Nebuchadnezzar was the head of gold, right? He signified the Babylonian Empire. Medo-Persia was the silver, Greece was the waste of bronze, and then Rome is the legs of iron and iron, feet, you know, that are iron mixed of play. That's Rome. So there's your four great Gentile kingdoms, what Jesus called the times of the Gentiles in Luke 21, 24. This is a time in history from the days of Daniel, continuing to our own day, when Gentile imperialism is the rule of the day. Okay? So Gentiles have been given the right to rule, but following that will be a fifth kingdom, and that's the kingdom, the stone kingdom, pictured in Daniel 2, which shatters all the Gentile kingdoms and it fills the whole earth. So it replaces those same kingdoms, it's in the same sphere, and we're still awaiting that. And of course, Christ in his session relates to this. That's Daniel 2. Now, Daniel 7 is parallel, right? Again, we're going to see four beasts, and then we're going to see the Son of Man. So these two, Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 are parallel stories. And yet Daniel 7 does not talk about a metal statue and depict them that way, but by four animals, followed by a son of man who comes to rule. So let's look at it. Daniel chapter 7, verse 2. Daniel said, I was looking in my vision by night. Behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. Now, this is part of the vision that he's seeing, right? So it's imagery and it's significant. We often just pass by that portion, but it's significant because what does the great sea represent in Scripture? First of all, the Jews were afraid of the sea. They were not sailors. In the ancient world, the Phoenicians were the sailors, which is the background for why Jonah setting sail to run away from the Lord and not go to Nineveh is so significant. Jews didn't like to get on boats. But he would rather get on a boat than he would go to Nineveh. But that story for the Jews is that they always viewed the seas as something that was easily stirred up and chaotic, as very dangerous. Of course, the great sea monsters and beasts and things in the sea that could kill too. So they were fearful of the sea. And the great sea represented in the Bible, it came to represent metaphorically, Gentile nations. Because the Gentile nations are just like that. They're chaotic, they're confusing places to live. They're difficult places to live. They're dangerous places to live. So the Great Sea represents Gentile nations, but what is stirring up the Great Sea? The four winds of heaven. Now, the four winds, it's not by doubt that, you know, just by circumstance, let's say, that spirit beings are referred to as spirits, which is connected to the wind, right? Our wind, our breath. And these spirit beings, these in this case demons, demonic beings are the four winds that are stirring up Gentile nations. And this shouldn't be a surprise. Daniel chapter 10 talks about angelic warfare between Michael and a demon over the airspace of Persia, modern-day Iran. And that there's these conflicts, these great angelic conflicts that are taking place, but definitely there are demonic beings that are behind the political forces, the political powers that be in Gentile nations. And that's what's being described here in verse 2. The chaos of the Gentile nations is being stirred up by demonic beings that are behind the scene. Now we couldn't know this except for the Bible, right? We're grateful to know this. It's not just people doing things. Behind these political powers in our world, behind the cultures of nations, are demonic forces stirring things up.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you for joining us on Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas. If you would like to see the visuals that went along with today's sermon, you can find those on Rumble and on YouTube under Spokane Bible Church. That is where Jeremy is the pastor and teacher. We hope you found today's lesson productive and useful in growing closer to God and walking more obediently with Him. If you found this podcast to be useful and helpful, then please consider rating us in your favorite podcast app. And until next time, we hope you have a blessed and wonderful day.