Hermeneutics of Dispensationalism

hermeneutics of dispensationalism Dispensationalism is known for particularly emphasizing that they take a literal approach to the

Bible They often say that take it literally or they'll say they'll take the Bible at face value the plain meaning the plain sense

Often used terms like that it I heard some pithy little saying that when the plain sense makes the most sense

It's the best sense something like that. We'll see what they believe what they teach Is that really the literal or is it really the plain?

Is it really what the Bible teaches? There are lenses we interpret our Bible through lenses And whether those lenses can help us to see clearly or whether actually like, you know

If I have this thing on my glasses think it's out there but it's really right here and the glasses and start with Dispensationalism is what they say is in the

Bible because is it really in the Bible? Is it because that's what they what they're seeing the Bible through?

First of all that gets his name as it said in the introduction of the video through use the word economies eras

Governments that the belief that God works. It has worked at different times through different Economies eras of governments you get right with God at different times through different ways we say called dispensations and to know

Dispensations left that scripture. I was at first Timothy 2 15. I think I forget the King James version

It's study show yourself proved shoe yourself approved into God rightly dividing the word of truth and actually the word idiom or dividing means just I think like the

ESP would have Say you show help prove to God rightly in handling It's like someone who knows how to handle meat or something knows how to divide it in the right ways handle it

But they would take that word dividing quite literally say there are divisions all through the

Bible you need to find those divisions and you kind of therefore, you know, what's in one side of the division you kind of cut out and This is the important part and so you find out which dispensation any passages from whether it relates to the old era of the law or the new that our age or the future age the

Millennium and the dispense most dispensation listen, you know, of course, there's always people disagree But this is the main way this is described by Charles Ryrie one of the main dispensational teachers

These dispensate these dispensations dispensation of innocence, that's Adam and Eve before the fall conscience

You know before early Genesis like from the fall to what would that be Noah's era?

Civil government it's from like Noah to Abraham. I guess before Abraham patriarchal rule

Abraham to Moses Mosaic rule the era of what they usually call that the dispensation of law

And the dispensation of grace or the church age they'll call it and then the Millennium in the future These are the typical dispensation, you know, you look at that and you think well they spend a lot of time dealing with all these dispensations not really

I saw someone said that I think it's Schaeffer wrote like a Three volumes long systematic theology.

Someone said he spent like a page and a half on all the dispensations except for Law and grace that's really the upset in the

Millennium The rest of them they kind of just pass over Okay, so you hardly hear about any of that.

The main issue is really law grace in Millennium so they say there's a dispensation of obscure their dispensation of law and Which is from Moses to Well, that's it.

That's the question. Is it to where? Because where's the Bible said there's a dispensation of law. When does it begin? When would it end?

Someone say most of them would say till Jesus. We're in Jesus's life, by the way Where does the dispensation of law in when he's born?

Someone say no No, no, because he came to offer in the dispensation of law to Jews to offer them the kingdom is rejected

So and not until he's crucified What they'll say so the dispensation of law and now we're doing the dispensation of grace

That got all messed up. Sorry, which is the church age, which is what we're in now All right, so this is one of their charts they love charts charts out

Easily and so you and that their belief then they interpret all of Scripture through that. This is the dispensation

It would be whatever passage open up somewhere. Oh, this is during the dispensation of law So it's not really

I'm in grace So I don't really need to eat it and this goes even for what we'll see Even for a lot of the teachings of Jesus Jesus came to those under the law

So therefore it's nice that he said it but it's not really relevant to me So I'll skip over that I got a lot here so for dispensation is understanding which

Dispensation a passage of Scripture is for is key to seeing whether it applies to us or not

Understand if it's in dispensation of law, even if it's Jesus teaching they say for example Many of them say the

Sermon on the Mount is Jesus came during the dispensation of law and it's about law And so well, it's nice to just Jesus said all that stuff

Sermon on the Mount blessed are the poor or you know You look on a woman with lust and all that stuff, it's nice that he said all that but it's dispensation of law era

It's really not relevant to me. Just kind of put that aside. So you end up nullifying all that but that's

So you end up basically with maybe the book of Acts in the the epistles

Which is that really what that's the way they would see it And then of course, we're under the dispensation of grace and they'll for example take the phrase from Romans chapter 6 verse 14

You are not under law Which they interpret that to mean you are not under the dispensation of law the government of law the time of law

When the when you the time when God said to be right with him you had to approach him through keeping the law

You're not under that anymore, but under grace Now we're in the era of grace

That's the way they interpret that phrase by Paul now You think is that what Paul meant when he said that you are not under law under a dispensation of law

Is that what he was thinking? but under grace But he's not speaking of different eras.

He doesn't mention that the word dispensation of law Never occurs anywhere in Scripture or dispensation of grace or church age.

None of that occurs anywhere in the Bible He's not speaking of a different eras or dispensations

You know first law then, you know, God kind of gave up on that and tried grace for a while But different approaches to God there are people who think even still today

Joe and George can testify to this you try to share You know, how do you you know, if you should die today, you're kind of typical evangelism question.

You should die today Why do you think God will accept you into heaven? Well because I've kept the Ten Commandments or whatever.

I tried maybe I feel here they're thinking I'm coming to God by law and there are plenty of people who think that way today and What Paul is saying is you're not under law

But under grace is that way of thinking is wrong and it always has been wrong

These are different approaches to God that people at all times have had for example

Romans chapter 9 verse 32 Because they did not talking about the Israelites Particularly unbelieving.

I'm believing Israelites that did not Believe in Christ or even before that the way they approach

God they did not pursue Salvation or righteousness, you know, there have been brackets there means

I'm inserting that word. They did not pursue salvation by faith And he said even to Jews in earlier times

Before Christ, they did not pursue salvation by faith, but as if it were

Based on works. What does someone mean when they say something as if it were? If I say about some guy this guy, you know

Jim on Sunday night. This guy came into Jim You wouldn't believe it. He came in here as if he were LeBron James What am

I saying? I'm saying one. He's not LeBron James and I'm also implying He's probably not even a very good basketball player

Yeah, he came in here looking like he was with all the gear and the attitude, but he's really funny kind of lousy

So what is Paul saying here? He did not pursue salvation by faith these

Jews But as if it were based on works implying it wasn't based on works it never was based on works

There was no dispensation of law Understand that as if it were it never was

So the Bible never uses the term terms dispensation of law It never shows us show me anyone here got an example

I can think of one show me one person and all the Bible is said to be justified right before God because of his works

So me where is such a person? I mean if there was a dispensation of law, you would expect at least a few people to make it through law

But no one did because there was no dispensation of law and then you think even of you know, even in Old Testament times

How did people come to God people came to God or were right with God? Saved we might say made a good relationship with God through faith

It always has for example Galatians chapter 3 verse 8 Paul says the gospel Was preached beforehand to Abraham.

Wait, I thought that was a previous dispensation Well, God wasn't doing the gospel in faith back then Paul says he was

Paul says God preached the gospel beforehand before it's fully revealed to Abraham and Abraham is just he's right before God Not because of a previous dispensation but because he believed it because of through faith by grace through faith

Romans chapter 4 is makes a whole chapter on that that he is right before God Abraham is the example of the person who through faith is

Right with God In Romans and he's supposedly in a previous dispensation if there was such a thing which there never was it

So the gospel was preached beforehand to Abraham in he believed the promise. The promise was given to him

He believed it that promise is fulfilled by Christ So he's looking forward and all people who were right with God in the

Old Testament were looking forward to Christ They didn't know all the details But they they believed a promise that's fulfilled by Christ.

And so through faith in that they're made right with God For example in the very next verse, so then those who are of faith

At any time are blessed along with Abraham The man of faith not the man of a different dispensation who did things a different way

No, all the faith and he in Galatians. He's used as an example of the believer right, that's and also again

Romans 4 makes a big point of that and another example of that is would be the heroes of the faith and Hebrews 11 all of them are

Old Testament people aren't they all of them? Maybe so for Abrahams before that is what's that dispensation of a forget of patriarchs or whatever?

But most of them are in the so -called dispensation of law In the writer of the Hebrews though chap famous chapter 11 all these list of people who were right before God because of their

Their faith because of their law keeping because of their works, right? They're they're heroes of the faith not heroes of the law

The the reality is rather than being different dispensations from the fall

Till today and you know until we're all glorified Jesus returns and we're glorified.

There is one covenant of grace That's a theological term But I think it's a good one when covenant of grace in other words

God made a covenant with his people and he knows who They are we'll see in our passage later in the sermon great passage

Make one the children of God scattered abroad. He knows who they are scattered abroad. He's made a covenant with them

We get the name for this church In other words, he's committed himself to those people out there and he knows who they are

We don't know fully who they are But he knows who they are He's committed by grace not because of anything about them not because anything about us not because of our law -keeping

To save us and make us one and that's been true from the fall Till today and now that kind of unfolded in the

Old Testament God revealed different things about it progressively that's what the whole Goldsworthy book was about and Then finally fully revealed in Christ, but but now we know but it's never been another way of salvation

Right. It's never been a dispensation of the law to try to be right with God All right, so we're in a covenant grace

So in the Bible, there is no dispensation of law and everyone always has been saved through faith

So the second one another sort of area of the way through which they interpret Scripture the seed of Abraham That are

God's people the the is the literal ethnic people Okay, this is very similar to what we did the past two times.

I taught so I'm going to pass try to pass over this very quickly Literal seed of Abraham. What is the seed of Abraham?

In the Bible God gives a promise to Abraham you'll have a seed, of course the dispensation will say well they are the

Israelites They're the Jews And so they're the ones that get the promise the seed of Abraham. They would say of the literal ethnic

Jewish people And for example, here's John Wolvard Wolvard's give me and he's a

Leading dispensational teacher and he says literally the seed of Abraham is the national Israel The promises to Abraham seed will be fulfilled by his physical seed that's what they would say is the literal interpretation

It's the physical seed You know, I prefer to interpret the Bible the way the Bible tells me to interpret the

Bible Describing this the way they believe it. Here's a Daniel Fuller He's not a dispensationalist, but he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the way they interpret it

The essential concern of dispensationalism is to keep the seed of Abraham which consists of his physical descendants

That's the seed of Abraham. They say Separate from the spiritual seed which consists of those who are somehow blessed through him.

Okay, so he's describing dispensationalism That's their view and that's the way they interpret Scripture through that But what does the

Bible say in Galatians chapter 3 verse 7 know then that they who are of faith

These are the sons of Abraham Those who are faith are the sons our daughters of Abraham That kind of answers the question doesn't it?

I mean, like I say, I think there are sometimes when a scripture just so clearly addresses the topic debates over we've come to the answer and There it is.

Who are the seed of Abraham those who are a faith and He goes on Galatians chapter 3 verse 26 for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus And if you are up and in verse 29, and if you are of Christ, then you are

Abraham seed there it is again if you are of Christ you're a believer in him you you even if you're you can't trace anything back to Isaac or Jacob or Abraham you want your family line comes from another way.

It doesn't matter if you are a faith You are Abraham seed and heirs according to promise

So here's the promise if you remember now to Abraham and his seed where the promise is made He did not say to seeds.

This is Paul in Galatians and check relations up to 316 He did not say to seeds as of many but as of one and to thy seed to your seed

Which is Jesus Christ first and wait Jesus himself is the true descendant of Abraham the son of Abraham That's how the

New Testament begins in Matthew chapter 1 verse 1 the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of Abraham son of David He's the true seed of Abraham and then we're all become seeds of Abraham children of Abraham through him

Then in light of that think of Galatians chapter 2 verse 28 for no one is a Jew is one merely one

Outwardly, but a Jew is one inwardly. So we conclude in the Bible the seed of Abraham is first first Christ and then those in him those who are in Christ Through faith you believer in him.

You're in him. In other words. God sees you as if you were in Christ He covers your sin He and and so you get it you get seen by the father as if as everything that Jesus is including being the seed of Abraham Through faith and then there's these promises.

I should go fast of this to his people. I will be their God for for Dispensationalism God has always been ethnic

Israel's God There's a promise in Jeremiah chapter 31 verse 33, but the

Bible links this promise of being your God with regeneration not with ethnicity

Jeremiah chapter 31 verse 33 There to the people he will be their God who are they they're people the people with whom

God has made a new covenant in that same chapter and Hebrews 9

Applies that to believers in Christ to Christians true believers to Christians They're the houses of Israel in the house of Judah and I will put my law within them

How does God put your law on you by making giving you a new heart right? With the Holy Spirit is in you

He's telling you what God's law is reminding you sometimes when you fail and you and you sin and we convict you or sometimes

Hopefully before that and you listen and I will write it on their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my people

Who are the day then? Those who are born again Have put here regeneration.

That's just a fancy word for being born again Given a new heart it goes on Jeremiah chapter 32 verse 38 and following They shall be my people and I will be their

God I will give them one heart and one One way that they may fear me forever for their own good and the good of their children after them

It's a new heart the heart results in fearing God I make with them an everlasting covenant these people whose heart is new

That I will not turn away from doing good to them and I will put the fear of me in their hearts

It's what being regenerate being born again does now you you believe you believe God you believe his promises and you believe his threats and so you fear offending him that they may not turn from me and Then similarly in Ezekiel chapter 37 verses 24 and 26

My servant David shall be king over them and they shall all have one shepherd.

This is Not directly relevant to what we're talking about now But I is it preparing this lesson thought you wonder if this is reflected echoed in Jesus's words in John 10

As we'll see in my sermon later Jesus there talks about you remember

John 10. I'm the good shepherd I laid down my life for the sheep and I have other I have other sheep not of this sheep fold that I must bring there will be one sheep one flock and One shepherd and it sounds like Jesus did that originally from Ezekiel That my servant

David who's his servant. Does that mean David literally is gonna come back and no The Messiah the one who is the son of David from the line of David will will be king over his people

And this King shall be their shepherd. They shall have one shepherd. So Jesus fulfills this

These are the one shepherd one shepherd you have one flock So Ezekiel chapter 37 verse 27 later on in the passage

He says to make an everlasting covenant my dwelling place shall be with them and I will be their God and they shall be my

People how it's God's dwelling place with them That means it's gonna the temple is gonna be rebuilt on the once they destroy that That big mosque in Jerusalem.

They're gonna build a temple there and he's gonna live in the temple again In the Millennium, is that what he's referring to or no, the church is the temple of God on earth

Right church is God's temple. He lives in their midst. He lives in our hearts If you're born again get it

Jeremiah said 30 chapter 31. Yeah, I will live in their their hearts so the people are

His people are their temple and they shall be my people. So he lives in those who are born again

He lives within them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel who is

Israel Well Israel's the people whom God in whom God lives and whom are born again who are regenerate When my sanctuary is in the mid in their midst forevermore a sanctuary again is

In your hearts in your church the born -again people of God So question number four in the

Bible God is the God of those he gives a new heart

Those he dwells in their hearts Those are his people and he will be their

God another sort of lens another Way through which dispensationalism sees the

Bible is the assumption that we're waiting on Israel possessing the literal land

I think both Rodney and I have said, you know there's both the there are things promised in the Bible there are now and there are things that are not yet and What dispensationalism does it says a lot of things are not yet and you need to understand that all these things are not yet Interpret the

Bible. This is not yet Let's see if those are true. So if they were waiting on Israel to possess the literal land

That's one of the things you were kind of waiting on for example, here's dispensational teacher. My name by the name of Arnold fruit and balm

His German means fruit tree. He's mr. Fruit tree for the first time in the future to be fulfilled

That's it. I'm starting that the first time notice that though for the first time he's saying right now

We're still waiting that on the first time in Israel's history She will possess all of the promised land.

We're waiting on that You understand even now Israel doesn't own it's just kind of just really a small portion of the land that's promised

But that's what he's saying for the first time. We're waiting on Israel to ever it hasn't done it yet It's never done it.

He says all in the basis of the Abrahamic Covenant, right? There is Is that true?

Are we really waiting on that? Is that a not yet or is that a now or even a pass? Well, let's see what does the

Bible say it says Joshua chapter 21 verses 43 and following remember they've come in the land book of Joshua they've conquered at least some of the land

Here's what Joshua said or at least the writer of the book of Joshua says so the Lord gave Israel all

The land which he had sworn to give to their fathers and they possessed it and lived in it It's not one of the good promises which the

Lord had made to the house of Israel failed all came to pass. Oh Mr.

Fruchtenbaum, did you look over look that verse or what and then Joshua just a little bit later It's Joshua now himself speaking now behold today

I'm going the way of all the earth and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one word of All the good words was the

Lord your God spoke concerning you has failed all have been fulfilled for you for you

Not one of them has failed So Joshua has to say and then later on just a little bit later

It shall come about that just as the good words was the Lord your God spoke to you have come upon you

Okay, so the Lord will bring upon you all the threats until he has destroyed you from off this good land

Which the Lord your God has given you. Otherwise God Promised in the land the time of Abraham Joshua saying he's given you all the land now you keeping it is another thing

Yeah, where do you think you can keep it forever no matter how you live Do they get to keep the land forever?

No matter how simple leave they live Joshua says no, of course Deuteronomy 28 says no you you you he's gonna give you the land

But whether you keep it isn't you know is another thing as a conditional later on in the reign of Solomon first King chapter 4 verse 21

Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border Of Egypt all the land.

Does that sound familiar all the kingdoms from the Euphrates? Euphrates River the land of the

Philistines and the border of Egypt. That's the land that's described by God to given to Abraham and here

Kings first King says God gave it all to him. It was at the time of David and Solomon They owned possessed all that land also 2nd

Chronicles chapter 9 verse 26 is the same thing They possessed all that land their territory was that large and then first King chapter 8 verse 56

This is a Solomon himself in his prayer to the Lord Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people

Israel according to all that he promised Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant

Jeremiah says in chapter 11 verse 4 and 5 I brought them out of the land of Egypt that I may confirm the oath that I swore to your fathers to give them a land

Flowing with milk and honey as it is at this day And it was he gave to them what he swore he gave them the land

Then they broke the covenant later after they've taken away in exile. Then they come back some other man

Anyway, there's some of the Jews Nehemiah And here's Nehemiah. I believe this is in a prayer to the

Lord Nehemiah chapter 9 verse 8 You found his heart fateful before you and made with him the covenant of Israel to give to his offspring

The land of the Canaanite the Hittite the Amorite the Perizzite the Jebusite and the Girgashite and you have kept your promise

For you are righteous. Nehemiah says God you kept your promise about the land you you gave it to us so in the

Bible the promise to Israel to have the land is Fulfilled its past it's done.

God did it but keeping the land It's conditional it's based on their

You know keeping certain laws And so are you waiting on the promised land and the

New Testament? Say it's fulfilled. Let's put it this way Hebrews chapter 12 verse 22

But you have come I come forward to somebody's you have come forward to Mount Zion and to the

City of the Living God Heavenly Jerusalem, which is the Church of the firstborn You've come to that so in the

Bible The promise to the land is ultimately fulfilled in believers being brought into the into the church when they believe

They come in to come in Christ. Then there are in There's the fulfillment of the promised land promise.

So number four because of the dispensations This is the way they interpret the Bible and the message of Jesus often doesn't apply to us

I encounter a guy like this on online just yesterday I believe it said just like it that was the prodigal son.

Jesus was speaking to those under the law So that whole thing is just for those under the law Until the cross then then's the era of grace after so everything before the cross even

Jesus is teaching Sermon on the Mount all that's Dispensation of law, it's really not relevant to us

For example, here's CI Schofield one of the leading dispensational teachers The Sermon on the

Mount has application literally to the kingdom. He's talking about that Jesus offered it under the law.

It'll come again. He says in the Millennium for us right now. It's not relevant at all It's not it's not applicable So dispensationalists generally say the

Sermon on the Mount is not for the church So repentance is a change of life from sin is not required only a change of opinion about Jesus So the call of repent for the kingdom of God is at hand that Jesus preached is not applicable today

You don't have to do that You know, Jesus came saying repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. That's not for you.

That's dispensational law That's the Israel Millennial Kingdom. Don't worry about that. Y 'all do you have to do is have a different opinion of who

Jesus is? Right. So for dispensationalist much of the message of the Lord. Jesus does not Apply to the church because it was offered to Israel under the dispensation of law

And so they divide the message of Jesus about where they say and where in the

Gospels Suddenly he's this is passed. It's not for us and this of course nothing in the

Gospels tells us that they're Imposing that on to the text. They're saying there's a division there that the

Bible never says there's a division there. All right, but here's a Charles Ryrie also where the leading dispensational teachers talking about so Repentance Jesus has come saying repent for the kingdom of God is at hand

Remember that the word he would say that the word repentance means to change one's mind About Jesus of Nazareth being the

Messiah this repentance is preached by the Apostles It's just a now we're in the book of Acts was actually the act of faith in Jesus Which brought salvation to the one who repented?

I'm getting a little too bogged down in this You understand the point now our repentance is different than the repentance

Jesus talked about Jesus I've got to change your life now as we got to change our opinions Even if our life doesn't change it doesn't matter

But that's not really true You think of Simon the sorcerer who said he said kind of he believed he at least accepted the message first Stephen and then was it

Peter and James or John came but later he tried to buy the gift of the Holy Spirit and Peter said you may your money perish with you

You need to and you need to repent But they would say for example is that when Jesus says strive to enter the straight gate?

We looked at just a few weeks ago When Jesus is Jesus and Luke's unit strive to enter the straight gate.

That's Jesus speaking to people under the law to us today We're under grace. We don't have to strive to enter the straight gate

That's what he says, right such as the human condition that the characterizes all the kingdom passages which offer entrance into the life

But an abrupt change is met after the turning of the Gospel of John Which gospel was written to announce the new message of grace, which is that eternal life may be had through believing

No, two words of Scripture were more vividly expressed the great characterizing relationship in law and grace then agonize

Strive and believe they're totally separate really are they Paul says

Work out your own salvation and fear and dribbling. It's not like striving to enter the straight gate to me, doesn't it? Sorry, mr.

Schaefer and the Bible saving faith produces agonizing work Not that the work did you saved is that if you're saved

You'll work Another lens to which they see the the kingdom of God as they would say is a literal earthly kingdom

That's what Jesus came to bring but it was rejected For example, John Nelson Darby who's the founder of dispensationalism for the 19th century in England?

He said suppose for a moment that Christ had not been rejected Then the kingdom would have been set up on earth

If they had rejected him the kingdom would have been set up you would have had just Literal Jesus would have been ruling as the king in Jerusalem drive out the

Romans So basically he's saying the Jews were right about what the kingdom of God is They didn't accept it.

So God reverted to a plan B dispensations cannot agree that the Old Testament prophets predicted that the

Messiah must first suffer and then be glorified because then the kingdom that John the Baptist and Jesus announced could not have been the glorious Davidic Kingdom and you think about That he's saying that's what the kingdom was meant to be a literal reign on earth

Look at all that we've learned about the kingdom of God He came over the last year. So Jesus said in Luke 11 if it is by if I by the finger of God cast out

Demons then the kingdom of God has come upon you And of course he did by the finger of God cast out demons.

So the kingdom of God had come upon them That was his point The kingdom that was different than they thought and that's what he taught that in his parables.

It's like leaven It's like the smallest mustard seed It's like all those other parables that he thought the kingdom of God was totally different than what you think you're not seeing the kingdom

Correctly and he taught about that and we had that whole series of that. Remember all that Okay, all of that that we heard from lad and fee and others is all wrong if dispensationalism is true way in the

Bible Jesus brought in the Kingdom of God and taught it came Mysteriously in our myths, that's my word mysteriously.

I don't mean it's not the best word, but in our myths it came like yeast It came like a mustard seed. That's what Jesus taught right?

Remember all that and finally since the kingdom has it come Then we are waiting for it to do so in the future.

That's the way they see it The kingdom obviously has it come Jesus is it reigning in Jerusalem over a literal kingdom?

So therefore the kingdom has not come. I guess Jesus was wrong when he said the kingdom God has come upon you, but never mind that that's that's the way they see things.

So they interpret all the scripture through that We're waiting on it and for example They take a passage that you know

David's fall intent the the promise to David that he had always have a king reigning on earth that has it been that that has

Been discontinued. There's no long king reigning from David's line in Jerusalem Therefore we're waiting for that dynasty to be set up again.

It hasn't happened yet We're still waiting on it. And there's this passage from Amos chapter chapter 8 was a chapter 8 verse 11

I said in that day, I will return I will restore David's fall intent. I will repair its broken places

I was the store its ruins and build it up as it used to be a dispensation say we're still waiting on that That hasn't happened yet.

Is that true? Well in Acts chapter 15 when both when Paul and Peter are reporting about the gospel spreading among the

Gentiles finally James stands up and says that God is taking from the

Gentiles a quote people for his name and Then he quotes that very passage from Amos I guess it was chapter 9 verse 11 and 12 quotes that passage from Amos and he says quote

Simeon as Peter has related how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people for his own name and with this the words of the prophets agree

Just as it is written after this I will return and I will rebuild the tent of David that has followed pay attention

What's happening here? James is concluding what Peter and Paul are reporting about the gospel spreading among Gentiles and then believing is

The fulfillment of the promise to a from Amos that God would restore

David's quote fall intent his dynasty. That's not it looks like it's not raining anymore

James says no this in bringing of the Gentiles to believe in Christ that fulfills that promise in Amos He says

I will rebuild its ruins and I will restore it that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord and all the

Gentiles Who are called by my name says the Lord who makes these things known from of old? That's how the reign of David is for that promise to David.

They always have a king ruling. That's how it is fulfilled so in the Bible fulfilling the covenant with Covenant with David which is rebuilding

David's fall intent. He's going to rebuild it that promise is is Happening in the gathering of Gentiles into the church something that is still going on in our day

It's through the Gospels through people Believing being born again That's how

David's fall intent David the promise to David is restored. It's going on now