What if The Jews Hadn’t Rejected Jesus – FBR Podcast #72

So as I said, this wraps up our study of the fifth dispensation, which has been going on for a while.

It's been well over a year since we started talking about it.

This is the dispensation of the law where God deals with the world through the law he gave to the Jews on Mount Sinai.

So since it has been a while and there may be some listeners who haven't gotten my entire dispensational spiel, let me just do a little review.

First of all, I am not a dispensationalist.

I don't agree with everything that dispensationalists believe.

The reason I use the term dispensation is simply because it's a familiar Christianese term that people understand.

What I'm really talking about is that there are different eras of time when God deals with people differently.

And each one of these periods of time is God's contrastive way of showing that his way of redeeming mankind, his way of producing the meaning of life is the only one that will work.

And he does that contrastively by giving man every other opportunity to accept him on their own.

And of course, man fails each and every time, beginning with the age of innocence, the original sin where he only gave life.

Adam and Eve, one rule that if they had obeyed it, then they could have been with God forever, but they disobeyed it.

And then we have, you know, the flood, the dispensation of Babel, the patriarchs.

We have the dispensation of the law and then the church age and the final millennial age.

And each one of those, God gives man every opportunity to choose God on his own without having to be redeemed.

Man fails every time.

And that's that's what it's all about.

So in the dispensation of the law, as I said, God deals with the world through Israel and through the Jewish law that he gave.

And if the people obeyed the law, they would be redeemed.

And when the Redeemer came, who is Jesus, obviously, then they would accept Christ and they would then be able to live forever with God and fulfill the meaning of life.

But we know it failed because the Jewish leadership rejected Jesus.

And of course, since the Jews are supposed to be the ambassadors of God to the other nations, when they failed, obviously, then that dispensation where they were supposed to be ambassadors failed.

Because how can you have an ambassador to God who rejects God's plan, God's redemption plan? And of course, the rejection of Messiah was truly tragic for many reasons, especially since there was so much evidence, enormous evidence of the fact that Jesus of Nazareth was the only person who could have been the Redeemer.

There is over 300 prophecies in what we call the Old Testament that pointed specifically to Jesus.

And we'll talk about a couple of them, including the one that state that gives the exact day that Jesus would present himself as the Messiah.