Transcripts For WJZ CBS This Morning 20130919

I happened to catch out of the corner of my eye this little girl. Karen was ten years old, by herself, going up and down the hillside of this dump looking and foraging for things. She was looking for food and also looking for, i believe, aluminum and Plastic Products to recycle for money for food. This is something that she does every day. Karens parents abandoned her years ago so shes being raised by her grandmother and grandfather who she calls daddy. Hes clearly very sick and when she thinks about the possibility of losing him, she is terrified. We can make a difference helping those children. We make a difference, but sometimes the people can see the need. I see the need every time that im going there. And its really important when those children give you a hug and they tell you thank you for everything you do, they thank you and god bless you because you are providing food for me and for my family. Thats something that really touched my heart. Stop and think for a moment about what a mother goes through raising her children in a povertyridden slum. How desperate she feels because she cant provide enough food or clean water for them. The agony of watching them get weaker and sicker from malnutrition. And her fears of living in a diseaseinfested place. This is reality for josephine and her three children. Life has been a bitter struggle for them after the death of her husband. He was the only provider for the family. So josephine does odd jobs like washing clothes to feed her children. But josephine is frail because she has a lifethreatening disease. Many days she doesnt have the strength to work so her children often go hungry. We just drink water and we stayed the whole day. When mildreds father was alive, he took care of their family and life wasnt this hard. In kenya the effects of severe poverty and the raging aids crisis have devastated one family after another. Fathers and mothers have been struck down by disease and millions have died. Single parents like josephine are struggling to provide for their children. Hunger for them is a painful, daily reality. But there is hope for children like mildred and her brothers. You can provide food for a hurting, hungry child and it only takes 15 a month. With the help of compassionate people like you feed the children is able to provide nourishing meals to hungry children living in desperate poverty. Call now and join feed the children in the fight against child hunger. No child should have to suffer the terrible pain of hunger and starvation. No mother should ever endure the heartbreak of watching her child waste away and die, powerless to save them. Theres so much need here. I mean, theres so much need and so many beautiful children here that it only takes just a little bit of what we have to help change their life. You can help provide nourishing food for three children every month. How is it possible to do so much for so little . Feed the children receives millions of dollars worth of food and essentials from leading corporations and food suppliers. Thanks to this donated food your monthly gift of 15 multiplies five times in value to ship 75 worth of lifesaving food and essentials. Thats enough to help feed three desperate children month after month. Its amazing as i walk these streets, it seems to be the place where christ would walk. When jesus said when you do it unto the least of these, you do it unto me. right now millions of girls and boys in the worlds poorest countries depend on the nutritious food that feed the children delivers to their villages and schools. Many of these little ones would certainly suffer and die without help. Thats why we urgently need your support today. Chronic hunger and malnutrition arent just painful. They can stunt a childs growth for life, affecting their Brain Development and i. Q. , and cause children to fall prey to parasites, malaria and other killer diseases. Making sure that children have food in their system, making sure theyre healthy. And because of that, children will spend time in classrooms. And without an education, frankly, theyre lost. Call now or go online. Become a feed the children partner. Help rescue three children from hunger and starvation every month. Can you imagine anything more meaningful you could do with 15 a month . Anything more urgent than saving childrens lives . Its hard to believe in hope, or believe in the good news, or believe in a god when you cant even eat. And so i think we have an obligation. Im here to do what i can and to be his hands and feet. I hope other people will get involved and help. Your taxdeductible gift of 15 a month is all it takes to feed three children every month. Every dollar you give multiplies five times to save childrens lives. Feed the children is a fourstarrated charity. Pick up the phone now, or search feed the children. Reach out a hand of hope to children whose lives and futures are in danger. No child should die of hunger today. Not when its so easy to save them. So dont wait. Call the number on your screen now or search feed the children. Naini is an orphan, and at just nine years of age she is suffering in ways you and i will never understand. The harsh conditions this little girl lives in every single day of her life are shocking. Both her and the little girl . Have had nothing for three days. In southern kenya where naini and her grandmother live in the maasai village of maparasha, life is full of unbearable suffering. To try and earn a little money for her and her sick grandmother to live on, naini goes from neighbor to neighbor offering to herd their goats. But even the neighbors are desperate and hungry and most times unable to pay her. Despite her many heartbreaking struggles, this precious young girl still has a dream for the future. Tragically for so many children like naini, the only prospect for the future is an early death. But you can change that. Call now and help save lives with your monthly gift of just 15. Thats just 49 cents a day to help feed three hungry children every month. The anguish caused by hunger is hard to deny when its seen on the face of a child. When we met brian, he was so hungry and sick he could barely muster the strength to cry. We were shocked to learn this child is threeandahalf years old. His small stature makes him look much younger. Sadly, this is just one of the many deadly tolls that severe malnutrition takes on children. Brian also suffers with the heartache of being abandoned by his mother. His father, who is sick with hiv, is left alone to try and provide for brian and his siblings. But this is an impossible challenge in nations like kenya. Despite doing grueling, physical work from morning until night, this determined father will walk away with maybe 1 a day. Experts call this starvation wages. With no one to watch him during the day while his father is looking for work, brian just sits alone in this dark, cold, mud hut. Sick and starving, he cries out for his dad and hopefully waits for him to return with food. Millions of children in africa are living with unimaginable hunger, suffering and sorrow. The solution to child hunger starts with you. Answer the anguished cries of a child like brian. Dont wait call now and save lives. For being only five years old little leila is extremely brave. She makes her way through the dangerous and dismal slums of nairobi, kenya, every day, scavenging for food. Severe, gnawing hunger drives her every step, searching in places so horrible they defy description. The day we met leila, she was happy. Happy because her scavenging turned up a valuable treasure for her and her family a halfeaten, rotten corn cobb. What most people throw aside as trash, children like leila fight to keep. Her baby sister, also ravaged with hunger, was desperate for as much of that rotten corn cobb as possible. To look into the faces of these beautiful children youd never imagine the brutal world theyre trapped in. A world where theres barely any food, no clean water, ruthless disease, and no escape from horrific poverty. Leilas mother is on her own, trying to provide for her children in these dismal conditions. In the slums where they live, work is nearly impossible to come by. Unimaginable deprivation is the way of life here, with nowhere to turn for help. What hope is there for children like leila . Will she even survive the starvation and disease that are attacking her small body . The cries of a hungry generation will be answered only in the hearts and actions of compassionate people like you. Call feed the children now and help save a childs life and future for just 49 cents a day only 15 a month. Thanks to the donated food we receive, your monthly gift of 15 multiplies five times in value to ship 75 worth of lifesaving food and essentials. Thats enough to help feed three desperate children month after month. No child should die of hunger today. Not when its so easy to save them. Call the number on your screen now or search feed the children. Benedict is very close to becoming one of the millions of children who die every year from hunger. But benedict is not a number. Hes a sixyearold boy who wants to play and learn and enjoy life, but tragically he cant. Hes too sick and poor to do much of anything at all. Compared to a normal, healthy boy his age, benedict is shockingly smaller. This is all due to malnutrition. Along with starving, benedict is also suffering from tb and yellow fever. Despite being dangerously ill himself, benedicts dad goes out every day searching for work, desperate to earn something so he can feed his sick, hungry child. But in the slums of nairobi, kenya, joblessness is as common as starvation and disease. The painful truth is that with no food benedict has no future. Every day hes inching closer to death. But right now you can start saving the life of a child like benedict by picking up your phone and dialing that tollfree number. After asharas mother died and her father left the family, shes been living with her aunt and five cousins in this tiny manyatta. Life is extremely brutal for the maasai in maparasha, making the care of six children almost unbearable for asharas aunt. The extreme drought and poverty in their village are causing them to slowly starve. And lack of water puts them at risk of dehydration, which is just as deadly. It comes down to whether hunger or thirst will kill them first. Shangua is another child in this droughtstricken village whose life is at risk from hunger. His frail, 78yearold grandmother is the only one raising him and his four siblings. She has no way of earning money for food, so theyre forced to depend on the kindness of neighbors to give them any scrap of food they might have left over. But that rarely happens. The stark reality of this boys uncertain future cannot be masked. Shangua and his family are starving to death. Time is running out for children like ashara and shangua. Theyre suffering and wasting away. So please, pick up the phone and call now for just 15 a month you can help feed three children and you may even save their lives. We had been told that there was this turkana village that we were going to go visit. We were told where it was, so we drove out into the desert, in probably what is one of the most remote places ive ever been. We parked our car and started walking. The people there were very, very welcoming. They invited us to come into the village to talk with them. When we arrived there, they had no food. Wed found out that they didnt have any water, so thats the first thing we did. We gave them some of our water. Then they invited us into one of their huts. We went in and sat down and they just talked to us about their situation. So they had goats that they had, were raising, and because of the drought the goats didnt have enough food or water and so the goats died. Its sad to see a family like this. Akeenos father speaks english. Hes educated, but obviously he has no chance to make a living here in turkana. And now hes come to a point where he cant even feed his children. As a father, how does that make you feel . When you look at akeeno, he is just so malnourished. It just breaks your heart to see the way his cheeks are drawn in and the ribs, you can just count each of the ribs on him. He is in really bad shape. What will happen if there is no help . No child should have to suffer the terrible pain of hunger and starvation. No mother should ever endure the heartbreak of watching her child waste away and die, powerless to save them. Theres so much need here. I mean, theres so much need and so many beautiful children here that it only takes just a little bit of what we have to help change their life. Call feed the children now and help save a childs life and future. For just 49 cents a day only 15 a month you can help provide nourishing food for three children every month. How is it possible to do so much for so little . Feed the children receives millions of dollars worth of food and essentials from leading corporations and food suppliers. Thanks to this donated food your monthly gift of 15 multiplies five times in value to ship 75 worth of lifesaving food and essentials. Thats enough to help feed three desperate children month after month. Every little thing that we can do is just such great need. These little babies are just precious. And you just want to scoop them up and take them home. Right now millions of girls and boys in the worlds poorest countries depend on the nutritious food that feed the children delivers to their villages and schools. Many of these little ones would certainly suffer and die without help. Thats why we urgently need your support today. Chronic hunger and malnutrition arent just painful. They can stunt a childs growth for life, affecting their Brain Development and i. Q. , and cause children to fall prey to parasites, malaria and other killer diseases. If we dont take a stand and try to influence help, give some of our abundance to these little children, we may lose another generation. Call now or go online. Become a feed the children partner. Help rescue three children from hunger and starvation every month. Can you imagine anything more meaningful you could do with 15 a month . Anything more urgent than saving childrens lives . Its hard to believe in hope, or believe in the good news, or believe in a god when you cant even eat. And so i think we have an obligation. Im here to do what i can and to be his hands and feet. I hope other people will get involved and help. Your taxdeductible gift of 15 a month is all it takes to feed three children every month. Every dollar you give multiplies five times to save childrens lives. Feed the children is a fourstarrated charity. Pick up the phone now, or search feed the children. Reach out a hand of hope to children whose lives and futures are in danger. No child should die of hunger today. Not when its so easy to save them. So dont wait call the number on your screen now or search feed the children. Children like michael. Far removed from the conscience of the world, michael cries himself to sleep from the pain of hunger that never goes away. And sadly, theres no one who can answer his cries for food. Thats because michael and his sister, sharon, live with their mother and baby brother in the slums of nairobi, kenya. This is a place so horrible it defies description. The filth is unimaginable, the Living Conditions deplorable. Daily life is filled with death and despair. Imagine the horror of living in such a place. No running water, no electricity, no sewage system, and barely any food. For americans this would seem like the end of the world. But for michael and his family this is everyday life. Michaels mother, heartbroken and hopeless, does all she can to try and feed her children. But here hard work barely earns you 1 a day, if youre lucky. And thats never enough for rent and daily food. So many times these precious children just suffer for days with nothing to eat and nowhere to go for help. Your help and your phone call can save a childs life. Ill always remember brians eyes. They were big and brown. They were beautiful. Hes unforgettable. Ill never forget his sweet face and his beautiful eyes. Most of the time when we were there, though, sadly his eyes were filled with tears. He was just so sick. He had tb. He had pneumonia. He had hiv, and on top of all that, he was malnourished. His mother had died from aids and he was left with his aunt. Brian was essentially an orphan. Aids, it takes away so many parents there, and then these children have to go live in horrible situations because thats the only option that they have. Every day brians aunt would leave the house to try to go make money for the family. She was basically going to the city dump to forage for things, whether it was to sell them or for the family to eat. But brian would sit alone every day in the house by himself while she was out trying to make money. I just cant imagine what a mother would be going through to feel, you know, what she would feel like to have to leave her child like that, but its life or death. So we realized that brians situation was, it was desperate and we needed to act right then. He was so sick, so we took him to the hospital and the hospital staff did everything they could for a couple of weeks. But he didnt make it. Brian died. There are so many children just like brian, who died. And the solution to this problem is as simple as food. This is the sad reality. A child dies every few seconds from hunger. I mean, in the time that it took me to just say that another child has died. What feed the children does is a matter of life and death for these children. Together, we can feed more children and we can save more lives. And we can save more brians from dying way too soon. The philippines is called the pearl of the orient seas, with 7,000 islands of breathtaking beauty. Her people are friendly, hardworking, and devoted to their families. Yet poverty is epidemic, and unemployment is skyrocketing. Millions of philippinos live in crowded slums with poor sanitation. Children are vulnerable to lifethreatening diseases, and hunger is a constant enemy. Kimberly and her cousin bernedette were abandoned when they were only babies, so their grandmother took them in to care for them. Faustina is a widow with no one to turn to for help. Many days there is no food for them. There are times that ill cook rice only twice a day and then at times no rice, or no rice to cook. So every time that i have nothing to buy for food, ill just go and beg some food for them so that i can give something for my grandchildren. Kimberly is well aware of their struggles, especially when theres no food for them. I can feel that our situation is not that good. John and his three brothers live in one of the largest slums in the philippines. They share their toys, and enjoy playing together. But theres a deep sadness in their hearts since they lost their father in a tragic accident. Their mother lives with the agony of a broken heart while she struggles to provide for her sons on a very small pension. I receive 60. And when i receive that money, i go and have some groceries, buy some rice, buy some canned goods and noodles for us to eat. But that amount is not enough, that money is not enough. We still need to pay for the water we use and for the School Tuition fee. So its very hard. Think of trying to provide for three hungry children on just 60 a month. Miraluna told us there are days they have hardly any food in their home. I feel so sorry for my children because i know that food is very important for them. Thats the hardest part for me, and then when they ask me, mama, i want to eat delicious food. At times this mother is overcome with worry about how she will provide for her children. Im tired and worried with that situation. Leah and her children live in a room about the size of a small storage unit. The only work she can find is doing odd jobs like washing and ironing clothes for neighbors. She wishes she could do more to provide for her children. I feel so sorry for my children, and i will ask myself why i cant provide for them. How does a mother tell her children there isnt any food and they have to go to bed hungry . Its a very hard thing in my heart and painful because there were times that my children want to eat this food, but i cant give them. They want this thing, i cant give them. However, other families can provide, then i cannot. So its very painful for me. Call feed the children now and help save a childs life and future for just 49 cents a day only 15 a month. Thanks to the donated food we receive, your monthly gift of 15 multiplies five times in value to ship 75 worth of lifesaving food and essentials. Thats enough to help feed three desperate children month after month. No child should die of hunger today. Not when its so easy to save them. Call the number on your screen now or search feed the children. Mesonos future is very uncertain. After her mother passed away, she went to live with her grandmother, but her grandmother is very old and blind. Although they do the best they can to care for one another, theyre barely surviving. Mesono and her grandmother collect firewood every day to sell in hopes of making at least a tiny amount of money to buy food with. But they barely earn enough to eat even once a day. Like everyone else in their maasai village of maparasha, theyre starving. Feed the children urgently needs your help to get food to children like mesono who are living in unbearable poverty and pain. You can give a child hope and a future with a provision of nourishing food through our feed a child progra. Theres nothing more heartbreaking than seeing orphans like mesono go hungry. Reach out to a helpless child by calling the number on your screen now. Help save lives and feed three children for just 15 a month. Esther is only nine years old, but when you look into her eyes, you dont see a child staring back at you. The pain of poverty and hunger has aged esther well beyond her years. Her short life has been spent suffering from a constant lack of food. Esther lives with her mother and siblings in the kiambu slum in the mountains above nairobi, kenya. Despite the beauty of the landscape, its a wretched place, full of hunger, disease, and poverty. Esther cant attend school. Because of their desperate situation, she has to work to help her family. But their only method of earning a living is to chop, gather, and sell firewood from the nearby forest. Most days little esther does all this work on an empty stomach, since they rarely sell enough wood to afford daily, nutritious food. Theyre lucky if they make enough money to buy some rice. But children cannot survive on rice alone. Theres not much hope for esther, or children like her unless compassionate people like you decide to help them. And you will make a difference when you call now. All it takes is the smallest sacrifice just 15 a month, or 49 cents a day to help feed children like esther, month after month. No child should have to suffer the terrible pain of hunger and starvation. No mother should ever endure the heartbreak of watching her child waste away and die, powerless to save them. Theres so much need here. I mean, theres so much need and so many beautiful children here that it only takes just a little bit of what we have to help change their life. Call feed the children now and help save a childs life and future. For just 49 cents a day only 15 a month you can help provide nourishing food for three children every month. How is it possible to do so much for so little . Feed the children receives millions of dollars worth of food and essentials from leading corporations and food suppliers. Thanks to this donated food your monthly gift of 15 multiplies five times in value to ship 75 worth of lifesaving food and essentials. Thats enough to help feed three desperate children month after month. Its amazing as i walk these streets, it seems to be the place where christ would walk. When jesus said when you do it unto the least of these, you do it unto me. right now millions of girls and boys in the worlds poorest countries depend on the nutritious food that feed the children delivers to their villages and schools. Many of these little ones would certainly suffer and die without help. Thats why we urgently need your support today. Chronic hunger and malnutrition arent just painful. They can stunt a childs growth for life, affecting their Brain Development and i. Q. , and cause children to fall prey to parasites, malaria and other killer diseases. Making sure that children have food in their system, making sure theyre healthy, and because of that children will spend time in classrooms. And without an education, frankly, theyre lost. Call now or go online. Become a feed the children partner. Help rescue three children from hunger and starvation every month. Can you imagine anything more meaningful you could do with 15 a month . Anything more urgent than saving childrens lives . Its hard to believe in hope, or believe in the good news, or believe in a god when you cant even eat. And so i think we have an obligation. Im here to do what i can and to be his hands and feet. I hope other people will get involved and help. Your taxdeductible gift of 15 a month is all it takes to feed three children every month. Every dollar you give multiplies five times to save childrens lives. Feed the children is a fourstarrated charity. Pick up the phone now or search feed the children. Reach out a hand of hope to children whose lives and futures are in danger. No child should die of hunger today. Not when its so easy to save them. So dont wait. Call the number on your screen now or search feedthechildren. Children are the hope for the future. But what kind of future do they have without enough food, clean water, and a healthy environment to live in today . In developing countries like malawi children face the constant threat of malnutrition and disease, making their future bleak. We traveled to a remote village in malawi, where daily life is a desperate struggle. We met four sisters making their way through the bush on their way home. They walked barefoot over rough, sunscorched terrain as if it was a plush carpet. We learned that the girls were abandoned after both of their parents died. With nowhere else to go, they went to live with their grandmother. She is a poor widow who willingly took the girls in, even though she has no means to provide for them. Nachasali went to work for a farmer, clearing a field for planting. It is a backbreaking job in the scorching sun, but it is all she can do to make a little bit to feed her grandchildren. At the end of the day she returns to their oneroom, mud hut to find what food she can to prepare a meal. The day we visited the only thing she had was some dried corn and peanut shells she ground to make a porridge, a meal lacking the nutrition children need. The water they drink is from this contaminated, muddy pond a mile away. As a result, the children are often sick, and the youngest girl is showing signs of malnutrition and intestinal worms. Nachasali is helpless to provide the food and clean water her grandchildren need. Think how you would feel if you were in her place. The heartache of seeing your children suffer from lack of good nutrition. There isnt much hope for children like these unless you reach out through feed the children. When a child sees the world through the eyes of suffering, its a sad place, without hope. Millions of children in the developing world struggle to survive without nutritious food, clean water, or a healthy place to live. They face the constant threat of disease, malnutrition, and even death. Natalie has aids. She also has a little girl named violet and no husband or family to help her in her most desperate hour. Too sick to barely move most days, natalie still has to look for any job she can find to try and earn a little money for the rent on their mud shack. But in kenya, where jobs with livable wages dont exist, natalie might make 1 a day might. This has put her months behind on the rent, and in serious danger of being thrown out on the streets with her little girl. Of course, theres no money for food, either, which is why violet is so emaciated from malnutrition. At just four years of age, little violet has known only a life of suffering and sorrow. She and her mother live hour by hour, searching for food and relief from the pain of hunger and sickness. Put yourself in this mothers shoes. Can you imagine being near death with no food to feed you or your child . Imagine being terminally ill and facing homelessness. Now imagine theres no one to offer you a hand of help in your darkest hour of need. In kenya millions of children are in a tragic state such as violets. Their families cant turn to their government for help. Theyre left to fend for themselves in a land of abject poverty, starvation, and disease. This is why our feed a Child Program is so desperately needed. There is hope for hungry children like violet, but it starts with you. Please reach out. Starving children like violet do not have the luxury of time. They need food and water now. Your monthly gift of just 15 helps feed three children every month. So pick up the phone and call before its too late. Helen is much smaller than most five year olds due to severe malnutrition. Her protruding belly, lighter hair, puffy cheeks all tell the story that helen herself cant. She is starving to death. When we visited this adorable little girl, she was too weak to play and couldnt even smile. Her little body was so sick and feeble from hunger that all she could do was sit in one place. Helen and her mother live in one of the poorest areas of the world the slums of nairobi. Here, youre lucky if you can earn 1 a day. And thats usually only by doing grueling, physical labor. Helens mother spends all day bent over, forming charcoal blocks out of dust, water, and mud to sell in the marketplace. Despite her mothers efforts, helens life is painful and hard. Their days are spent scrounging for food, trying desperately to stay alive. With no food, helen has no future. But the good news is you can be the hope for a child like helen. You can start helping to save a hungry childs life immediately. Pick up your phone now and save childrens lives for just 15 a month. This small amount will help feed three children every month and give them a chance to grow and realize their dreams. Every minute matters. Call now. Call feed the children now and help save a childs life and future for just 49 cents a day only 15 a month. Thanks to the donated food we receive, your monthly gift of 15 multiplies five times in value to ship 75 worth of lifesaving food and essentials. Thats enough to help feed three desperate children month after month. No child should die of hunger today, not when its so easy to save them. Call the number on your screen now or search feedthechildren. They live in a mud hut in a very remote region of tanzania. No water, no electricity, and no food. When was the last time theyve eaten . Ask him if hes hungry when the last time it was that he ate . Despite their crippling poverty, the hunger, and the loss of their mom, these children still cling to their dreams. They want to live. They want a Better Future than the one they face now. Their dreams are very much like those of your children or mine. But theres really no hope for these children if they dont get help now, today. I remember on that day it was really, really hot and humid, and the smell was just overwhelming. You just, you could barely breathe. I happened to catch, out of the corner of my eye, this little girl. Uh, karen was ten years old, by herself, going up and down the hillside of this dump, looking and foraging for things. She was looking for food, and also looking for, uh, i believe, aluminum and Plastic Products to recycle for money for food. This is something that she does every day. Karens parents abandoned her years ago. So shes being raised by her grandmother and grandfather, who she calls daddy. Hes clearly very sick, and when she thinks about the possibility of losing him, she is terrified. We can make a difference helping those children. We make a difference. But sometimes the people can see the need. I see the need every time that im going there. And its really important when those children give you a hug, and they tell you, thank you for everything you do. Theyll thank you. And god bless you because you are providing food for me and for my family. Thats something that really touched my heart. No child should have to suffer the terrible pain of hunger and starvation. No mother should ever endure the heartbreak of watching her child waste away and die, powerless to save them. Theres so much need here. I mean, theres so much need and so many beautiful children here that it only takes just a little bit of what we have to help change their life. Call feed the children now and help save a childs life and future. For just 49 cents a day only 15 a month you can help provide nourishing food for three children every month. How is it possible to do so much for so little . Feed the children receives millions of dollars worth of food and essentials from leading corporations and food suppliers. Thanks to this donated food your monthly gift of 15 multiplies five times in value to ship 75 worth of lifesaving food and essentials. Thats enough to help feed three desperate children month after month. Every little thing that we can do is just such great need. Um, these little babies are just precious. And you just want to scoop them up and take them home. Right now millions of girls and boys in the worlds poorest countries depend on the nutritious food that feed the children delivers to their villages and schools. Many of these little ones would certainly suffer and die without help. Thats why we urgently need your support today. Chronic hunger and malnutrition arent just painful. They can stunt a childs growth for life, affecting their Brain Development and i. Q. , and cause children to fall prey to parasites, malaria and other killer diseases. If we dont take a stand and try to influence, help, give some of our abundance to these little children, we may lose another generation. Call now or go online. Become a feed the children partner. Help rescue three children from hunger and starvation every month. Can you imagine anything more meaningful you could do with 15 a month . Anything more urgent than saving childrens lives . Its hard to believe in hope, or believe in the good news, or believe in a god when you cant even eat. And so i think we have an obligation. Im here to do what i can and to be his hands and feet. I hope other people will get involved and help. Your taxdeductible gift of 15 a month is all it takes to feed three children every month. Every dollar you give multiplies five times to save childrens lives. Feed the children is a fourstarrated charity. Pick up the phone now or search feed the children. Reach out a hand of hope to children whose lives and futures are in danger. No child should die of hunger today. Not when its so easy to save them. So dont wait. Call the number on your screen now or search feedthechildren. Closed captioning provided by feed the children g g g announcer welcome to through the bible with les feldick a thirtyminute walk through the scriptures, teaching indepth bible truths that change peoples lives. Now heres your host, les feldick. Les feldick okay, i guess were on and its good to see everybody in this afternoon and especially those of you from out of state. We have indiana, and illinois and texas and various other places outside of tulsa. We just want to make you feel welcome and at home in our group because after all you know, people across the land get used to seeing these same faces all the time and they feel like they know you as well as they do me. And of course thats only by tv association. But, anyway were glad to have you all in. And for those of you joining us out there in television, we just thank you for tuning in and we thank you for your loyalty because you know, everybody that writes or speaks to us at seminars, the first thing they say is i watch you every day. well now thats a lot better audience than somebody that just listens once in a while. So we do, we appreciate your loyalty, your prayers, your letters, your financial help, and yes i can still honestly say that we do read your letters. And now we dont want them long for that very reason, or wed never get finished, but keep them short and to the point unless of course, now if youve got a testimony and it takes a page or two to give that, we dont mind. But, on the ordinary we appreciate short notes and that way we can keep in contact with all of you out there. All right, this is a bible study for someone that might be catching us for the first time, were an informal bible study as you can tell, and we just simply go by what the book says. We dont try to deviate the greek and try to figure out how the greek could have been mistranslated and all of this other stuff were hearing today. Thats the bad part of the computers now you know, the computers are throwing out so much information that now they think that they know it all and you know the old cliche as well as i do. a little knowledge is frightening. and so you have to take all that into consideration. All right, now lets go right back in a continuation of where we left off in our last program. I didnt feel that i had sufficiently finished the abrahamic covenant and we touched on romans chapter 11 but i want to come back to it for this first half hour and more or less complete it. All right, were dealing with the covenant that was made with abraham way back 2000 bc in genesis chapter 12 and that covenant said in so many words that god was going to make of that one man, abram, a new nation, a race of people and that god would bless the man himself and the crowning act of the whole thing was that through abram or later on abraham, the whole human race would be blessed. and that of course came about when the messiah of israel, who came as a result of the covenant promises, went the way of the cross, purchased salvation for the whole human race. Not just israel but for all and it all rested of course on that abrahamic covenant. And thats why i dont think you can exhaust studying it. All right, so now we come to pauls reference to the abrahamic covenant, which is of course primarily the nation of israel and well start right with verse one. And what a statement in light of so much of the stuff that were being bombarded with today. And heres what he says, romans 11 verse 1, i say then, has god cast away his people . has he given up on the nation of israel . Have they disappeared like theyre trying to tell us . Well the scripture answers the question. God forbid. And a better translation there i think is dont even think such a thing god could not cast away his people because of all the promises that weve been seeing coming up through the covenants in the last several programs. How could he cast away everything that he ever said . But you see, weve got this one huge group that are making such tremendous inroads today and they call themselves preterits. For years i called them amillennialist and they believe that 70 ad the nation of israel disappeared. The other day i had a huge brown envelope, that thick, typewriter size pages. And i didnt even bother to look at who wrote it or where it came from but i opened it and i have what some people call a bad habit. I think its the best one ive ever had and that is everything i get, a book or an editorial or a newsmagazine, i go to the back page first. Cant help it iris will bring a library book and i go to the back page first. chuckles. but anyway thats my habit. If i open a news magazine, and you know the editors know that, im not alone. So whats usually on the back page now of your news magazine . The editorial the daily oklahoman, the editorial page isnt in the front or the middle its almost the back page. So anyway, i open this great big manuscript, or whatever you want to call it. So i go to the back page. And what do you suppose his last paragraph says . Boy what a time saver so all this is to prove that the jews that claim to be jews today are not jews at all. well handily the round file was right there. laughter. and thats all i need, so if the guys listening i hope he knows better than to spend three dollars in postage the next time. Save it. I wont read that garbage. But see this is what theyre bombarding even the christian world with that god did away with the jews after the titus invasion of jerusalem in 70 ad and that the jews of today have no relationship whatsoever with the jews of scripture. Well if thats the case then threefourths of this book can just as well be torn out and thrown away because it all promises that god will never give up on the nation of israel. And paul confirms it right here in chapter 11, has god cast away his people . have they disappeared . dont even think such a thing. because gods word is true. And as weve been showing over the last several programs, especially in the covenant promises, god has promised that the sun will fall out of its position before israel will disappear as a nation. And yet these people just totally ignore all that and then heres the crowning one in the new testament. Has god cast away his people . God forbid. He cant or his word would become of no use. All right and paul is living proof. He goes on now. For i also am an israelite of the seed of abraham, the tribe of benjamin. God has not cast away his people, which he foreknew. Now were going to see in our following programs how that everything since the dawn of Human History with adam and eve has been by gods design. Hes in control of everything for 6000 years. And so this is what paul is reminding us. God will never let the nation of israel disappear because in his foreknowledge he has them ready for the endtime return of christ to set up his kingdom. They have to be here all right, now im going to take a few of these verses and just sort of skim over them. And he says in verse 3, lord theyve killed the prophets. And we know the Old Testament jews did over and over. Theyve digged down thy altars. and elijah said, im left alone and they seek my life. Now paul writes, but what saith the answer of god unto him . I have reserved myself 7000 men. Theres that remnant. Seven thousand out of israels population of usually seven to ten million, so you math people, whats the percentage . One tenth of one percent. All right, now well read on and when we get to the word remnant im going to go back and show you what it really means. All right, so that remnant of one tenth of one percent, they didnt bow their knee to baal. They remained true to jehovah. Now paul brings them up to his present day and he says, even then at this present time there is a remnant according to the election now of grace. All right, now lets go back to isaiah, honey. Isaiah chapter 1, that this is not a new phenomenon. I was reading a book last night by a british prophecy expert and he was pointing up how close we are to the end. And of course being a brit he was more acquainted with whats going on in england and europe. And its frightening. Frightening. Of what is really taking place in western civilization. And he quoted what some of the bishops of the church of england had been telling young people, and its just unbelievable. And so he made the same point the believing element in the world today is just a small remnant. Well thats nothing new. Dont be shocked because here we are 700 years before christ, isaiah chapter 1 verse 9. Seven hundred years before christ. Amongst the nation of israel. The chosen race. Verse 9, except the lord of hosts had left unto us that is the nation of israel a very small remnant, then we the nation would have been like sodom and gomorrah. Had it not been for the little one tenth of one percent, what would god have done . Destroyed the nation. And its ever been that way. Now well probably see in the next program, were going to go back to noah and ive always maintained there must have been around four or five billion people at the time of noahs flood. How many were saved . How many were believers . Eight not eight million, not eight thousand, not eight hundred. Eight. Out of four billion, five billion people. What was that . A little tiny remnant. And so its always been and even today amongst christendom, my, they like to tell us there are 5060 million christians in america. I wish that were true. But im afraid its a stretch because the vast majority of even our wellchurched people dont have a clue about salvation through faith and by gods grace alone. And its so sad. Well, anyway, here we have this whole concept that its only the small percentage. All right, now you come down to verse 7, still in romans 11. Or back to romans 11. I didnt want to leave you in isaiah, did i . Back to romans 11 verse 7, what then israel has not obtained that which he seeketh for but the election or those who truly believed obtained it. Now weve got to stop. What was the nation of israel constantly looking and hoping for . The messiah who would bring in that heaven on earth, kingdom environment. But when the messiah came, in unbelief, they rejected him. Except for the few. That little small flock of believers who paul refers to here as the remnant. but what happened to the vast majority of israel . Blinded blinded. And to this day, its almost impossible to speak to a jew about jesus christ. Now, ive been getting the Little Mission magazine, israel my glory for years and years and one of my favorite articles is again on the last page, written by a converted jew, survivor of the holocaust and hes always sharing his experience of trying to testify or witness the Lord Jesus Christ to fellow jews there in jerusalem. And youd be amazed at how they hate him for it. But thats the typical response of the jew. Theyre blinded. Providentially. Until the day when gods going to open their eyes theyre suddenly going to again become the favored nation and theyll recognize their messiah when he comes the second time. All right, but thats not where i wanted to spend my time, i wanted to come on down now to some of the aspects that the abrahamic covenant can never be abrogated. All right, lets come all the way down then to verse 11. And here again, for these preterits, what do they do with verses like this . As a rule, i dont fault people who disagree with me but this is becoming so obnoxious and the material thats coming in my mail, just bombarding me with it, and so i can hardly hold my patience much longer. But see, what do they do with this . Verse 11, i say then have they the nation of israel . Have they stumbled that they should fall . Well of course they stumbled but did they fall out of all of gods dealing for the endtime . Never of course they stumbled, in unbelief. And of course god uprooted them and dispersed them into the nations of the world. But, did he obliterate them as a nation of people . No way and everything thats happening in the world today is a fulfilling of those promises that after theyd been dispersed into every nation in the world; god would bring them back. And hes been doing it. And hes still doing it. And people are blind to that. I dont see how anybody can miss it, that those jews are not there in that bustling beautiful city of jerusalem unbelievable wasnt it, you guys . I know you were shocked when we were there just a few weeks ago. Its shocking how huge and how busy that city of jerusalem has become. And the arab world thinks theyre still going to run them into the sea . You know as we were driving through the streets with all that traffic, i almost had to laugh within myself. Who do they think theyre kidding . Who brought them in there and gave them all this . The god of abraham, isaac and jacob and there isnt enough force in this whole world to oppose the god of abraham. And so theyre there. And this is what paul is talking about. Yes, they stumbled, when they rejected the messiah, but they didnt fall out of gods program for the future. All right, read on, but rather through their fall through their unbelief, rejecting the messiah, crucifying him and bringing about the resurrection and all that pertains to our gospel, it was all because of israels unbelief. So . Through their fall salvation is come to the gentiles to really provoke the nation of israel to jealousy to think that the god of abraham is now turning to the gentile world. All right, now then, verse 12, now just keep reminding yourself what im saying. How can this be true if the jew has disappeared 1900 years ago . Then we might as well throw the book away and go home. Now if the fall of them israels rejecting their messiah . If the fall of them be the riches of the world the whole world and the diminishing of them their being taken out of their homeland and dispersed among the nations . And the diminishing of them brings about the riches of the gentiles, which is what happened because of the gospel of grace. It went out to the whole human race. Rich, and full and free whereas theyve been diminished and have been blinded and are out in a dispersion up until now in our lifetime. Then look at the last question. If all of this is accomplished, what weve seen it accomplish, then how much more their what . . Their fullness. And whats that . When they will finally in opened eyes of belief see the return of their messiah, the establishing of that earthly kingdom. Thats their fullness. And its still in their future, see . Okay now then verse 13, paul reminds us that hes merely giving us all these facts concerning the nation of israel, even though he is the apostle of the gentiles. And oh, people dont want to swallow that. It just rankles them. Paul i had someone tell me again the other day that they were trying to talk to one of their pastors, the guy says. Paul, we dont even look at paul. We dont have a thing to do with him. Well, thats running rampant through christendom, see . But paul is the apostle of the gentiles, hes gods spokesman for us who are not jews. All right, i magnify my office. Then the reason for his apostleship is that he might save some. All right, now here we come back to israel again. Weve got to move quickly. For if the casting away of them sending them out into the dispersion . And if the casting of them be the reconciling of the world that is the rest of the world. In other words, by israels rejecting and bringing about the death, burial and resurrection of the messiah and that opened up the whole plan of salvation for the rest of the world, well if that act of unbelief has brought about such a response for salvation for so many gentiles, what shall the receiving of them back into the promises, what is it but like, what . life from the dead. Well isnt that exactly whats pictured back there in ezekiel 37, the dry bones . The valleys are white with dry bones. Those are symbolic pictures of jews out in the dispersion for these hundreds and hundreds of years. But what did ezekiel see . The bones coming back to life. They hooked up together. They formed skeletons. Flesh cam upon them. It was all a symbolic picture of the jew coming back to his homeland and becoming once again a nation among the nations. And weve all seen it happen. And what is it . Like a miracle of resurrection itself, life from the dead. All right, now then, im going to come down to verse 17, if some of the branches be broken off, which of course is what god did with the jew when he sent them into dispersion. If some of the branches be broken off and thou now hes talking to us gentiles remember . . And if were part of the wild olive tree and we were grafted in among them that is all the promises made to abraham, isaac and jacob and thats why weve been studying the covenants and how were related to them. We were . Grafted among them and we have been partakers of the root and the fatness of the original olive tree. Well whats he talking about . This whole book, from cover to cover was written by what people . Jews thats why i maintain luke couldnt have been a gentile. This book was written by jews. And you and i are feasting on what god accomplished through the jewish people. On top of that, jesus came to earth as a jew. He went through his Earthly Ministry as a jew, under the law. Anything he accomplished that had to be reported to the priest, whatd he tell them . Go show yourself to the priest, according to the law. And so everything that you and i enjoy under this age of grace is because of israel. You cant take them out of the picture. I dont care how hard they try. And so here we are. Were boasting in the root and the fatness of abraham. Now then, verse 18, you and i as gentile believers cannot get proud and puffed up and look down on the jew and say look what weve accomplished that you could have had and didnt get. no. We dare not do that. So we boast not against the branches but if thou boast thou barest not the root, but the root is bearing you. Do you see what hes saying . Hes telling you and i as believers, dont get proud and puffed up and act as thou were the ones that have brought about israels possibility for salvation someday. No. Israels still going to rest on those same roots and the tree that began with the abrahamic covenant. And one day its going to come back into full force and the nation of israel will be blessed like theyve never been blessed before. All right, now well come down to verse 19, again paul is talking to you and i as gentiles. And he says, you as a gentile will then say, the branches were broken off. that is the nation of israel. Taken out of the place of blessing. . You will say then the branches were broken off that i might be grafted in. Now whats the danger . That wed get proud and puffed up and say see, you jews were nothing. And theres a lot of people that try to say that. How does the average muslim refer to a jew . hes a pig. Hes less than human. and a lot of gentiles are just as bad. A lot in christendom are just about as bad. But we dare not take that attitude. Its got to be the other way around. Weve been blessed to partake of these covenant promises, even though theyve been set aside because of their unbelief. See . All right, verse 20, i ran ahead of myself. Well. Thats okay that you may think that, but youd better rethink it again. Because of unbelief see that . Israels unbelief they were broken off. They were sent into dispersion. They were given that spirit of blindness. And god turned to the gentile world through the apostle paul. See . All right, so now hes reminding us. Dont be highminded, dont get proud and puffed up. But youd better have some reverential fear. In other words, wed better understand how blessed we are because of israels unbelief back there at the time of christs Earthly Ministry. All right, now then verse 21, for if god spared not the natural branches. If he judged israel because of their unbelief, you think hes going to shrink from judging the gentile world because of their unbelief . Not for a minute and the world is getting closer every day. You know i was just reminded the other day by some company we had from a distant state and how many multiple murders were taking place in their particular area of the country. But lo and behold the daily oklahoman had headline frontpage news of four people murdered over here in southeast oklahoma city. And now were finding out its almost epidemic across the country. Not single murders. Multiple multiple. All right, and so he says here, be careful that we will not bring in his wrath and his judgment because of unbelief just like he did with israel. All right now then, verse 22, behold therefore the goodness and severity of god, on them who fell. Here we come back to israel again because of their unbelief. It was severe. Their city was destroyed. Their temple was destroyed. Almost a million jews lost their life in that roman invasion. And the rest were scattered into the nations of the world because of gods wrath against them and their unbelief. But hey, is the gentile world going to miss it . Not for a minute. Their judgment is coming and its coming faster and faster every day. All right, so he says, dont be like they were. Dont stay in unbelief, but continue in his goodness, otherwise you too will be cut off and we know they will be. Now verse 23. and they also that is israel if they abide not still in unbelief shall be grafted in and whats the word . again. Now goodness you know plain english. If theyve been taken away from the root and the fatness and theyre going to grafted in again what does that tell you . Theyre going to come back into the place of blessing. How can they if theyve disappeared from the scene . You see what a big lie the whole thing turns out to be . But they will be grafted in again. They will enjoy their messiah at his Second Coming. All right, now then im going to have to for sake of time, come all the way down to verse 25, and whats going to be the indication of all this . Verse 25 where paul says, i would not brethren that is to you and i that we should be ignorant of this secret, lest we become blind in our own concept, that blindness in part that is for a period of time. Its now been 1900 and some years but . That happened to israel and they still are but its going to end one day. And when will that be . when the fullness of the gentiles is brought in. And whats the fullness of the gentiles . 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And i think i just sort of let it slip here several programs back that i was contemplating doing some of the buts in scripture, but god, and but now and so forth. And so the day has arrived. Were going to start with that series now in just a moment. For those of you out in television again we just want to remind you how much we appreciate your financial help and your letters, your phone calls, everything thats an encouragement to us, we just thank you for it from the depths of our heart. And the other thing i think always amazes me, i think 99 our of 100 of our letters start out, dear les and iris. now you know as well as i do, iris is never visible. She never says anything. And how Everybody Knows shes part and parcel of this i really dont know, but they do. And so we appreciate it. Because she is a big part, even though she may not be that visible. Okay, well go back and were going to start this series, this is now, like i said, book 64. And go with me to genesis chapter 6. Were going to start with one of the very first ones in scripture. And be aware that whenever we use these little prepositional phrases, because after all the word but is a proposition in our english language, it always involves the sovereignty of god. Had god not intervened then things would have never gone as they have. Now ive mentioned on this program down through the years, one of the most Amazing Things is that when god set everything in motion back there with the creation and adam and eve in the garden, that he did not make the human race puppets on a string. The human race has been left with a free will and yet by his sovereign design everything has fallen in place exactly as god blueprinted it. And here we are 6000 years later and god is not a day behind or a day ahead. And its amazing, how that the human race left with a free will and as ive said over and over nations can form armies and navies. They can declare war. They can sign peace treaties. And yet, everything is in accord with his purpose and design. All right, now lets just start here at genesis chapter 6 of course its the chapter that brings in noahs flood. And the first one we want to look out now is verse 8. Genesis chapter 6 verse 8 and what are the two words . But noah found grace in the eyes of the lord. Now what was all of the previous events that brought in this sovereign act of god . Well lets just rehearse for a minute. I dont have to show you from scripture, most of you know. As soon as adam and eve fell, satan becomes the god of this world. The human race becomes sin natured and from the very day that they come out of the garden, even though there was an element that remained faithful to god and so forth, yet within 1600 years, which of course is a long time, the whole human race had degenerated to a corrupt condition. And thats the word in genesis chapter 6. All right, lets just go back to verse 5 and then well build up to our verse 8 but noah. but this is what went before. And god verse 5 . And god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart that is of every individual human being was only evil continually. Now can you put that in context . In other words, the human race, however many there were. I think in the area of four to five billion people by now. If you dont believe me jump on your computer, you math people, and you just start out with two people having children. Who knows how many, because they lived 900 years . And you just put that over a period of 15001600 years and you have no trouble whatsoever getting four billion people. And yet every one of them was consumed with wickedness and evil and the primary one was murder. They were killing each other like we kill flies. And thought nothing of it. And so this is when god had to come in and begin to look at the whole situation. Verse 6, and it repented. Now thats far different from what we mean repent in our new testament. This is merely means that he was sorry. And god was sorry that hed made man on the earth. Because hes made such a mess of it. But why did man make a mess of it . Because god left him with a free will. Had god made him a robot, it would have never happened. But were not robots. Nobody is. We all have that free will. And so it was that their heart was just bent on wickedness and god was sorry and it grieved him at his heart that he had made the human race. Well i imagine all of us think of that at one time or another dont we . What must god have thought even as he looks at the world today and were right back and im going to make the point here in just a minute, were right back to where they were then. Were not very far removed. All right, now then, look at verse 7, and the lord said, i will destroy man whom i have created from the face of the earth, man and beast, creeping things, the fowls of the air for i am sorry that i have made them. In other words, hes just going to destroy it all so to speak and seemingly start over. Now verse 8, heres where we have to stop and think. But. Here god is ready to just cleanse the planet of what he had created, but something intervenes. And what is it . Heres one man that is still remaining true to the creator. He is has not become involved with all the wickedness around him. And consequently god condescended to this man because of his steadfastness in his behavior and his faith toward the creator and consequently instead of destroying every last human being, god spared noah and his family. And act of god . Absolutely a miracle . My, beyond human comprehension that out of the billions of people in the then known world, hes got one man that has remained true to himself. All right, now then, you come down then and you get a recap of the corruptness of what god was going to deal with. Come down to verse 11, the earth was corrupt before god and was filled with violence. Now i think were all aware of the term violence, is when men kill men. And the earth really has never changed. Since ive been laid up these last couple or three weeks, ive been doing more reading than i usually do. So ive been reading about alexander the great. Oh horrors. What an evil, wicked individual. He had no compunction about giving an order to kill thirty forty thousand people. He had no compunction about his immorality. Wicked to the hilt. And thats up to within 300 years of the time of christ. And its been going down hill ever since. All right, but here were at the time of noah when the earth is filled with every kind of immorality and wickedness and then capping it all was the murder that was taking place every day. All right, now lets tie that up with our new testament account if you will. And come all the way up to luke chapter 21. Hope this is the one i want. Otherwise its matthew 24. Im sorry. Lets go back to matthew 24. I thought i wanted luke 21, but it was matthew 24. Yeah. Matthew 24. Sorry about that. Verse 37. Matthew 24 verse 37. Now luke accounts for much the same as these but this is the one i wanted. Matthew 24 starting at verse 37, and were doing this to again make folk away of how we are right at the same place today in the world. And i think god is giving some wakeup calls with some of these horrendous disasters. All right, verse 37 of matthew 24, but as the days of noah were, so shall also the coming of the son of man be. Now of course, you want to remember that whenever the gospels speak of the coming of christ its not talking about the rapture as you and i think of it, but the Second Coming, at the end of the seven years of tribulation. Always remember that. Everything in the four gospels falls right in line with the Old Testament and revelation and it is all preparing the world for the Second Coming of christ. All right, so remember that thats always seven years beyond when we will be here. For as it were in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that noah entered into the ark and knew not. They had no idea that such a judgment was coming. But should they . Yes, they should have. Because the 120 years previous to it, while noah and his sons and probably extraneous hired help are building the ark, what are they also doing . Theyre preaching. Judgment to come did anybody listen . No. Is it any different today . No. You could scream from the housetops, wake up. The end is coming what do they do . They scoff at you. whoever heard of such a thing . The end of the world . No, the world will always keep going. not according to this book. And so here we have an indication, when you go back and see the scenario just before the flood and compare it with what today is, what have we got . Identical. A perfect parallel. All right, and so now read on. And so, they knew not they should have, noah was preaching it to them, but they . Knew not until the flood came and took them all away. So shall also the coming of the son of man be. In other words, its going to be a horrendous loss of human life. How we felt for those poor people in asia. However many hundred thousand lost their lives. Some say a hundred some say three hundred. Doesnt matter but a tremendous loss of life. But listen thats just a drop in the bucket to whats coming and the wrath of god will be poured out. And i cant help but remind people, is it his fault . No. The human race wont listen. The human race will not turn from their sin and their wickedness, instead theyre going deeper and deeper into it. My i always tell my grandkids you know when i warn them about movies. I say, no look, dont think old grandpa doesnt know whats going on in the world out there because i read. I dont go to the movie theaters but i read and i read the movie critics. I read what kind of garbage our kids are looking at on the big screen and so old grandpa knows pretty much whats going on out there. Now i read an article again the other day in one of our National Newspapers of whats going on in some of our bigger city school systems. I wouldnt even dare show it to my wife. Shed vomit. But its awful of what theyre doing to our junior high kids in these big city schools not all of them, but a lot of them. And what is it . Its a sign of the times. And they think theres absolutely nothing wrong with exposing these little seventh and eighth graders to all this garbage. But listen thats the way it was at the time of the flood. And were there. And the lord himself says thats a sign of the end. All right, lets read on, verse 40, two shall be in the field. One taken and the other left. Now i suppose a lot of you were like i used to be. I used to think this was the rapture. No. Jesus couldnt talk about the rapture because the church hadnt even been revealed yet. So how could he talk about something that isnt even aware of existing. So whats he talking about . Hes talking about jews and jews because thats who hes talking to. So, thered be two jews working in the field. One will be taken and the other left. Raptured . No. Hes going to be taken to his doom and the other one will go into the kingdom. All right, move on, next verse, there shall be two women grinding at the mill. The one taken the other left. Well the one thats taken is the unbeliever because you see, its time for christs return and the setting up of the kingdom and no unbelievers go into the kingdom only the believer. So whats he going to do . Hes going to cleanse the earth of every unbeliever so that only believers go in. Now if you need a little further definition of that, turn the page to chapter 25, honey. Turn over to matthew 25 if you think im stretching the point. Now these are not jews that jesus is dealing with here. Hes dealing with surviving gentiles who have come through the tribulation and they have become believers as a result of the 144,000s preaching. And along with the believing gentiles, there are unbelieving gentiles. And so hes going to separate them. And the analogy is, just like a shepherd separates goats from the sheep. All right, matthew 25, you drop down into verse. Well, well start at verse 31. I didnt intend to do this. Here goes my schedule ill be way behind. chuckles. verse 31, when the son of man shall come in his what . glory. What are we talking about . The Second Coming. Not the rapture. The Second Coming when he will come to the mount of olives in jerusalem. All right, when the son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit upon the throne as king of his glory. There in jerusalem, on mount zion. And before him shall be gathered all nations. Survivors from around the planet. From every nation under heaven. And hell separate them as a shepherd divides sheep from goats. Now here it comes. And he shall set the sheep the believers on his right. The goats, the unbelievers on the left. Now heres how he separated them. The king says to them on his right, the believer come blessed of my father inherit or partake of the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. whats the kingdom . That earthly heavenly kingdom where christ is going to rule and reign from jerusalem. All right, what happens to the believers . They go in flesh and blood on into that glorious earthly kingdom. Thats plain as day, isnt it . All right, but now lets go pick up the goats and ill skip all these verses in between. Verse 41. Then he shall say to them on the left the unbelievers depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. and then verse 46, just to make sure you understand whats happening here, whereas the believing element can go alive into the coming thousandyear reign of christ, look what happens to those who are not believers, and these shall go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal. Now you cant make it any plainer than that, can you . I dont see how you can. All right, now then come back to chapter 24 and pick up what were talking about. So those that are removed are the unbelievers in israel and the believers are going to be part and parcel of the promised kingdom, see . All right, then verse 42 and then well go back to our account of noah. Verse 42 of matthew 24, watch therefore be ready for you know not what hour your lord doth come. Well even though they be able to understand its pretty near the end of the seven years yet they will not know at exactly day and hour the lord will suddenly return and the righteous will go into the kingdom and the unbeliever will go to their lost estate. Okay, so lets come back to genesis chapter 6 for just a moment or two more and see why god had to destroy that whole creation of human beings and animal life and except those of course that went into the ark. But come back to verse 8 and these are the kind of prepositional phrases that were going to look at for the next few moments. But noah. In spite of everybody else going down the tube one man and his family stayed true to the creator god. But noah. And what a difference it made in all of Human History because you see, like it said, had it not been for noah what would god have had to do . Destroy the whole. But he had that little tiny remnant of eight people from which he could start the whole ball of wax going once again. A tremendous point in time. Okay, lets pick up the next one in genesis chapter 45 and were going to come all the way up to the life of joseph. Now i had to do some sorting out because you wouldnt even be able to guess how many times the word but is used in scripture. Well, i wont make you sit there and sweat it out, but almost 4000. Almost 4000 of them. Thirty nine hundred and i think fortyfive, if it remember right. You wont even find them all in a strongs concordance. All right, but heres another one, genesis chapter 45 and again i think ill do like i did with noah ill bring you over to where we have the word but and now i have to look. I should have marked it, shouldnt i . No its up here in verse 5, where joseph and his brothers have been brought into a knowledge of each other. No verse 8, im sorry. Verse 8, honey. There it is. So now joseph says . So now it was not you it wasnt you eleven men. It was not you that sent me hither, what are the next two words . but god. But god. In the midst of this jewish family , young joseph is starting to have dreams. And dreams that just utterly provoked his brothers. You mean were going to all down and worship you some day . And then he had yet another dream and he shared it with his brothers, now wait a minute. You little teenage scamp, you mean to tell us that one day not only are we going to fall down, but even your mother and father . You remember what his dream was . That even the sun and the moon worshipped him. Well as a result of all their anger and you know what happened. They sold joseph into slavery, which of course was commonplace throughout the middle east because ill say this without trepidation, history proves it, the most famous slave traders the world has ever know has always been the arab people. And so to whom, did the brother sell their little brother joseph . Ishmaelites. Arabs. And he ends up down in egypt. And again you all know the life story of joseph, how that he had spent years in the dungeon. Finally came out and by gods intervention, by gods providence, joseph became the second leading man in that gentile nation. And as a result of his place of authority, he saved the grain during the good years and had it for the lean years. All of which, by gods design, one day the sons of jacob would have to come to egypt, hat in hand, asking for food. And you know the story and how that joseph of course, supplied their needs. And he knew them but they didnt know him. Oh, time goes by and they run out of grain and they have to come back to joseph once again and this time of course, joseph reveals who he is. Now lets in the few minutes that are left, lets come back to chapter 45 in genesis and well start at verse 1 because this is whats leading up to the but god that were looking at in verse 8. So whos in control of everything . God is everything and yet did he take away the free will of these people . Not one whit. Now you see what im driving at . How does god do it . I dont know but even today, im going to be speaking saturday mostly on prophecy over here, and ill give you a little tidbit. Were going to be looking at ezekiel 38 and down there in those nations listed that are going to invade israel under what we think will be russias leadership, there is one crucial nation in the worlds news today that is not in there. And i didnt catch it until a couple of months ago and i was just flabbergasted all the middle eastern nations are involved in that russian invasion except one. Which one is it . Babylon. Babylon. Babylon. Which is what . Iraq iraq wont be in that invading force. Now i have to set up and take notice. Do you suppose thats why we were led to go in and clean up the government in iraq. I think so somethings going to happen over there thats going to boggle our minds before its all over, because god has something intrinsically on his mind. Otherwise why did we invade iraq when we should have probably gotten syria or iran . But according to biblical prophecy iraq is the nation thats not in that war. Well anyhow, were going to be looking at that in more detail saturday in our seminar. But see, god is in control of everything. And so here these men come the second time for their sacks of grain and so joseph made himself known, the end of verse 1. My time is down to one minute. And verse 2, when he saw the relationship now being reunited, he wept aloud. verse 3, and joseph said to his brother, i am joseph, does my father yet live . And his brethren could not answer him for they were troubled, they were fearful of his presence. Because after all joseph is the second top man in egypt. And joseph said unto his brethren, come near to me i pray you. And they came near and he said, i am joseph your brother, whom you sold into egypt. Hes not going to let them forget that. Verse 5, but now joseph with the heart of a believer, the heart of a godly man says, now therefore be not grieved. Dont be angry with yourselves that you sold me hither. For god did it. See that . God caused them to sell him into slavery. God went him into the dungeon for ten years. And then now verse 6, for these two years they are in the famine time, the famine is in the land and yet there are five years in the which there shall be neither earing nor harvest. God sent me before me to preserve you. And then we come to the verse we started with, so now it was not you, you didnt do it fellows, it was god and see this is what we want to see in all these buts as we come up through scripture, how that a sovereign god is always in total control. Announcer thank you for watching through the bible with les feldick. Through the bible is a partnersupported ministry. If this program has been a help to your study of the scriptures and youd like to see others enjoy the teaching, your support would be greatly appreciated. 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