 Okay All right, welcome back everybody to our second lecture on BC 106 interpreting scripture we're just talking about Interpreting prophetic scriptures and just giving some Pointers on how to interpret prophetic scriptures So let's pick up at point number eight which We said the PDF Okay, so another important thing with prophetic scriptures It's a keep in mind that There are Certain prophecies Old Testament prophecies which have a Dual fulfillment in the sense. This is point number eight in the sense of Spiritual fulfillment in the church and a literal fulfillment in Israel So although the prophet in the Old Testament was prophesying is speaking to Israel that prophecy is fulfilled first in the church and It will be fulfilled literally In Israel. So some examples would be Joel chapter 2 Joel is prophesying which I come to pass on the last days. I will pour out my spirit on all bless Your sons and your daughters will prophesy Your young men will see visions your old men will dream dreams Now he's speaking to Israel. He's not speaking to the church He's prophesying to Israel as a nation But When the church is born on the day of Pentecost Peter stands up with reference to the church and He is saying this is That which was spoken Like Joel and this is that which was spoken So Joel prophesied The church's birthed and Peter is saying it's happening here now, but we know that So that's a spiritual fulfillment. So we refer to that. Okay, that's a spiritual fulfillment And that continues to happen today in the church And so when we are preaching all over the world, you know, all the Gentiles like wherever there's oh God is pouring out his spirit on all bless Now, how can we say that? It's applying to us because Peter by the Holy Spirit said What Joel prophesied is for us today Yeah, and and Peter went on in that sermon. He said this promise is to you It's to your children is to all who are far away It's to as many as a Lord our God should call acts to 38 39 So basically saying Joel's prophecy is for everybody As many as a Lord our God will call that means it's being fulfilled spiritually in the church Right now But at that time he was speaking to Israel And it will be really fulfilled in Israel. You read about that in Zechariah 12 verse 10 and the Christ comes During the tribulation at the end of the tribulation when Jesus is coming back Zechariah 12 and God says I will pour out my spirits of Grace and supplication on the house of Israel And They who pierced him will see him Meaning the house of people of Israel and they pierced him right they will see him God says I will pour my spirit on all of them So it will be literally fulfilled During the tribulation With the people of Israel, but it is first it was first fulfilled spiritually by the church You understood also very interesting is That In Joel's prophecy he spoke about Your young men will see visions Your old men will dream accept to Did anybody have a vision did anybody had a dream act chapter 2 in the upper room? 120 were there What happened? There was a sound of a rushing mighty wind They were tongue higher They spoke with No vision no prophecy no dream Joel said I'll pour out my spirit Young men will see visions old men will dream dreams your sons and daughters will prophesy orange banana here tomato And Peter is He's comparing he's saying this safe Apple orange banana is not same as onion tomato potato But Peter by the Holy Spirit saying this is that point is When the Holy Spirit moves when the Holy Spirit is poured out it will be different manifestations All right, that's the point Yes, Joel said visions dreams prophecy that didn't happen on the day of Pentecost There were the sound of from heaven tongues of fire people speaking in tongues was not the same thing literal exactly same thing, but it was the same Holy Spirit moving different manifestations And we see that throughout in the in the in the in the revivals of the church Same Holy Spirit is moving, but the manifestations are different It's okay Holy Spirit is moving Just the expressions may be different Okay, so just keep that in mind. That's a side note so another example of our spiritual fulfillment of the church is Amos prophesied Amos chapter 9 I think it's verse 11 through 13 Amos prophesied He said Amos said God is saying in the last days. I will rebuild the tabernacle of David's and The Gentiles The sons of Edom the Gentiles will come seeking God And the sower will overtake the reaper This is Amos chapter 9 11 through 13 The sower will overtake the reaper. So what Amos said? In the last days, I will build again the tabernacle of David The Gentiles will come seeking God The harvest would be so great Sower will overtake the reaper How do you say it in Hindi? Something like that So the So the sower will overtake the reaper What does that mean? The harvest will be so much They'll be reaping reaping reaping. They can't finish But the sower will come here. I'm ready to sow So the sower is overtaking the reaper. That means the harvest is so much. They have not been able to bring the harvest in And the sower is coming back and saying I'm ready to sow more seeds So that is a picture of big harvest sower overtaking the reaper. What was that word again? bo bo ne wala Khatne walaise Seetra, okay sower will overtake the reaper. So Amos said that God will rebuild the tabernacle of David What will happen the Gentiles will come seeking God And sower will overtake the reaper Amos said that Then in Acts chapter 15 James Who was the leader of the church in Jerusalem at that time Acts 15 verse 15 James is standing up and saying Oh, what we are seeing happen now Is what Amos prophesied This is an Acts 15 Okay, there is no tabernacle of David no physical tabernacle That means no physical temple So tabernacle of David basically David built the tabernacle a tent place where people are worshiping the Lord all the time the worship went on for 30 33 years So God says I will bring that tabernacle back I'll build that bring back that Basically the temple and then then Solomon built the temple where worship continued But when James was speaking in Acts 15 verse 15 There was no temple There was no tabernacle But he is saying As the prophet spoke it's happening now That means he's saying what we we are who was there the church The church was a fulfillment a spiritual fulfillment Of Amos chapter 9 11 to 30 Church is a spiritual fulfillment. That means the church is seeing The fulfillment of the Gentiles coming in And when the worship is restored in the church the church is worshiping Jesus Then these two things will happen Gentiles will come and the harvest will Though be so great That we won't be able to finish or gathering all the harvest It'll be so great but The same prophecy Amos's prophecy Amos 9 11 to 13 Will also be literally fulfilled in Israel. They will have A temple that will be rebuilt where they will be worshiping God That will literally happen, but it is spiritually being fulfilled in the church today You understood Okay, so that is another thing to keep in mind about Certain prophecies given in the Old Testament That are how that are having a spiritual fulfillment in the church But it will still be literally fulfilled by Israel Both will happen Okay, you will see again. We just given two examples there. Just a few more things point number nine is There are certain prophecies we had to keep in mind I have dual fulfillment that is an immediate and a future So example in Genesis 3 15 the Lord spoke to the serpent serpent From now on you will crawl on your belly Which means maybe he was moving around in a different way. I don't know But now as you crawl on your belly And there will be enmity between you know people and the snake You will hurt their heel, but they will crush your head So that is literal today till today it's going on We crushed we when we see the any serpent where you will hit it you'll try to hit it on the head Not the tail Because you know, that's the part if you hit the head it finished So that is literal But there is a spiritual significance talking about Jesus Who will crush the head of the serpent Jesus was born of this as a seed of the woman Who will crush the head of the serpent? So there is a dual fulfillment, right the immediate which was natural and The one that was out in the future was Jesus would come and he would crush the head of the serpent the devil So So that's an example for dual fulfillment so you'll find other examples of such um So in prophecy, yeah Look for prophecies that are you know, maybe sometimes part has already been fulfilled And part will be yet to be fulfilled So Distinguish it too, right? Okay. This has already happened. This is going to happen For example in Joel chapter 2 In in in one prophecy Joel said it will come to pass in the last days that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh um Yes, your sons and daughters will prophesy your young men will see visions and Your old men will dream dreams upon my servants and my handmaidens. I will pour out my spirit And the sun shall be darkened and the moon will be turned to blood reds That part is not yet fulfilled Right. So in that one prophecy one part is already fulfilled in the church But the other part about the sun being dark and the moon being turned blood red That's going to happen in the millenia in the in the tribulation He's read about in revelation 6 and 8 two times in two judgments that will happen Okay, so that is going to happen Whereas one part has already been fulfilled, right? So let's keep these few things in mind As we go about interpreting prophetic scripture We will study Daniel and revelation in detail In in the third year any questions before we change chapter Yes, right Sorry, some prophecies are some prophecies have been fulfilled. The others have not been fulfilled I'm sorry. I can't hear some prophecy have been fulfilled some have not been fulfilled. Yes So relating to all the prophetic books so So would you say that those prophetic books Like I mean a few parts here and there talks about Jesus or it's relating to revelations And all that but the others like is it going to be fulfilled? All of it all the prophetic books are the prophecies going to be fulfilled Okay, your question is Um Have all the prophecies been fulfilled. Is that what your question is or are a lot a lot You mentioned like some have been fulfilled. Some have not been yet. Yes So are all the others going to be fulfilled? Yes So a large number of prophecies in the bible have already been fulfilled I think like somebody counted them. I don't know what the number is but like over 10,000 some prophecies fulfilled prophecies That's why The bible is such a reliable prophetic book You know, so I mean Especially example the book of Daniel It is so amazing that people doubt the book of Daniel. They say, how can a man prophesy like this? You know, so they question it but for example Daniel was In the time he was serving in the Babylonian empire I mean Nebuchadnezzar had the dream God was showing him the next four world empires. He was showing him The that the Medes will come take over Then the Persians then the Greeks and then there will be another empire coming in You know and then after that there will be another A time when The Roman Empire what was a former Roman Empire, but the iron and the clay will mix And there will be 10 toasts and leaders and in out of that will come God lift up this his kingdom So Daniel was at that time in the Babylonian empire and he was foretelling Of course, God was showing him all these world empires other empires that were going to come And everything I mean not everything a lot of that happened meaning the Medes came into power So Daniel was there He was serving under the Medes Then the Persians came in power. Daniel was serving under the Persians So he served under the Babylonians the Medes and the Persians, but he also foretold Greeks will come next which happened He was not there to see it But he's now looking back in history because yeah Greeks came He prof he foretold about Alexander the Great He foretold about how his kingdom would be broken into four four parts that happened exactly And then he talked about the coming of Christ the messiah So When people look at the prophecies of Daniel they say how one man say all these things Can't be you know because it was so accurate. So and he was speaking centuries ahead of time, you know, so The point to answer your question I'm saying all kinds of things but to answer a question. Yes many prophecies of the bible majority the prophecy of the bible are fulfilled What is left are the things concerning the end times And things out in the future the millennium and all of that But we can be so sure that those will be fulfilled because of all other prophecies that have already been fulfilled What is your question? What's your question? Okay, any other questions Let me see online If any of our online students have questions any questions from the online students Okay All right, so if there are no questions, we're going to go to the next chapter Let's go next. I haven't put this pdf On the classwork. I'll do it later today after The third lecture. I'll just share I'll do that So I'm sorry. It's not there yet. I will upload it Lesson number 12 so In this lesson, we want to talk briefly about The Old Testament in the New Testament. So What we do know Is The New Testament Looks back at Old Testament other Old Testament scriptures A lot of the Old Testament scriptures is Explained or referenced for us In the New Testament so it's connected And I like how somebody put it The New Testament Is in the new is in the old concealed The old Is in the new reveals That means The New Testament is hidden in the Old Testament and the Old Testament is explained in the New Testament Okay, the new is in the old concealed The old is in the new revealed. So they're very closely connected Old and New Testament So as we are reading The New Testament from the Gospels on Will be references back to the Old Testament Example right in the birth of Jesus It says oh this happened. So when they When they When Joseph and Mary took baby Jesus to Egypt Then the right gospel writer says for out of Egypt. I have called my son So he's quoting from Old Testament Then oh Bethlehem You know a franta Bethlehem Out of you will come Him who will to be the ruler of the nation So he's right from the beginning of the Gospels There are references to the quotations from the Old Testament. So basically Unlike that I mean give the give the always in the Gospels Even in the ministry of the Lord Jesus And he is preaching he quotes from the Old Testament That's what they had it on those days. So he's quoting from the Old Testament He quotes from them. He points to examples in the Old Testament After his resurrection When he is walking with his disciples, he takes them through the Old Testament And mentioning all the scriptures that were pointing to him You know, so he says see Old Testament scriptures was pointing to to to himself to Jesus So even the Lord Jesus referenced it now Paul in his writings in his epistles Especially in Romans He references the Old Testament a lot And he quotes from the Old Testament Romans In other scriptures and Galicians he quotes from the Old Testament The writer of Hebrews quotes a lot from the Old Testament Peter quotes from the Old Testament so In many of the right in many of the right books of the New Testament Referencing the Old Okay, so Why are these quotations and how are these quotations used and how should we? You know use of them now in some cases They are not sure of the exact location of The quotation It's maybe a reference meaning it's Word for word quotation, but it's like saying okay, like somebody says, you know And nowadays when you hear people saying they just say the Bible the Bible says and they will Say something they may not be quoting word for word an exact words But they're giving an essence of what the Bible Or what the Bible says So in that sense we can understand and make one example is in John 7 where Jesus says As the scripture has said Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water John 7 38. So there's we can't point to an exact Word for word reference in the Old Testament But we can say well like Isaiah said he used thirsty let him come to me and drink, you know So that could be the context in which Jesus is mentioning this Okay, so we may find a couple of those those kinds of incidents, but most of them you could always point it's okay He's quoting from here So there's some reasons why we have these quotations and we've just mentioned these reasons here Uh to show that an Old Testament prophecy was fulfilled. So you'll find okay this happened so that What that prophet said was fulfilled. So it's showing you it's a fulfillment um The or to show us that what is being done the New Testament is actually agreeing With what the Old Testament is saying So like we said uh aim is we aim us and miss nine Active can be just mentioned. So that's an example. Okay. This is happening just like the prophet said Although the literal fulfillment wasn't there there was no tabernacle of David But the essence of what was happening, which is the Gentiles are seeking God This is a spiritual fulfillment of what the prophet said, right? So he's pointing back to that um Or the New Testament could be Explaining further elaborating further On something mentioned in the Old So we could look at Joel 2 and Acts 2 There on the day of Pentecost the experience is actually happening and Peter is saying this is What Joel said hey, that's what's happening here. It looks very different, but this is that Right, uh, that's what he said the Holy Spirit is going to move upon us The Holy Spirit is moving on us, you know, but if you look at the details, yeah, maybe there are variations But don't get caught down with the variations. This is the work Of the Holy Spirit and it's expanding the understanding of that. That's point number three Or uh, sometimes something of the New Testament Is being supported by what was stated in the old so Martin and Genesis 2 24 Jesus is saying he's teaching about marriage and he says A man shall leave his father and mother be joined to his wife and they too will be one flesh Okay, so he's teaching about marriage in the New Testament But he is quoting obviously is that and they only had the Old Testament. So he's using Genesis 2 24 To show that that same principle Concerning marriages continuing in the New Testament Continuing in the New Testament same principles continuing, right? So That that is being established Paul uses a lot of the Old Testament To explain or teach us New Testament truths Right in the New Testament many many actually the book of romans is is is is very powerful because He quotes so much from the Old Testament in the book of romans almost every chapter almost every chapter in romans He's referencing something in the Old Testament talking about sin talking about the law Talking about Abraham talking about righteousness by faith Paul is teaching us New Testament truth From the Old Testament scripture so New Testament revelation, of course it's you know, it's showing us a lot more giving us more understanding But in order to bring us that understanding he is pointing back to the Old Testament and teaching us, you know, so New Testament truth is even Hot to us So there's several reasons here That we can see on on the use How and how how and why the Old Testament is used in the New Testament Uh, there's some guidance here on interpreting Old Testament references in the New Testament I haven't covered all those points here, but When we Are interpreting Old Testament references In the New Testament understand the context Right understand what is being talked about in the New Testament And understand what was what is being referenced from in the Old Testament and important is See sometimes What we read in the New Testament Is going to help us better understand the Old Testament So you come into the New We did it here. Oh Now I can go back to that Old Testament. I can understand it better but What we must not do is don't Put into the mind or put into the Old Testament what is not contained there Right, we can we can understand it better. But remember when the person writing it They had a context There is a literal aspect of it So that must be retained example You know the New Testament Jesus is referred to as the Passover lamb So okay, so then he go to Exodus chapter 12 So if they Did Passover They took the lamb they cut it They took the Hissab They applied it to the doorposts of the house Now that was literal It was a literal lamb Right, so we shouldn't Did they know that that lamb was pointing to Jesus? They didn't know They were just following instruction Moses said hey tonight That the angel is coming if you want to stay alive you do this Everybody. Yeah, we want to stay alive. He'll do what you say They followed Moses That was the mindset they were not thinking this is a holy lamb This is pointing to the messiah Oh, this is the blood of the lamb That's going to wash my they did not know anything of that Right, so don't Put into into their minds. Oh All the Jews knew or the Hebrew people knew That that lamb was the lamb of the son of God was the son of God Don't do that. They didn't know So keep the literal as it is don't in the New Testament we know That that was Passover lamb was pointing to Jesus is very sacred. It's very holy But back in that day and in Exodus 12 for them it was a lamb It was a literal thing they did they cut it they collected the blood They put it there and put you know put on the house and they sat they stood inside saying okay Moses told us if we do this we will be safe That was it Okay, but later on we understand the meaning of that so For us it is very rich For them it was a little thing they did on that night when they went out When they were brought out of Egypt right and Don't read too much into every detail like Oh the hisseb The hisseb was like a broom like you know, they made those They took the the the parts of that plant Like almost like a not a broom like a brush You know, they had to use something so they used it and they put it don't say hisseb is something or The house had one two three This is a vertical horizontal beam and this was the some don't read all those things and it was this plain and simple. That's how they did it right So be careful not to read into the Old Testament. You understand the Old Testament better It's so much more powerful. But don't read into it. Okay, so So be careful But as we said The New Testament will help us understand the Old Testament better Right, so just give an example. We'll look at one example. We'll close In azir 53 was for In azir 53 was for Azir writes Surely he has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows Yet we did esteem him stricken spitting of God and afflicted But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed. That's what's fine Okay, so as a 53 verse 4 and 5 So when you read as a 53 4 You think, okay, surely he has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows. So you think, okay, he carried out, you know, we A lot of our emotional thing our griefs or sorrows But when you come in the New Testament, Matthew 8 16 and 17, this is the gospel letter Matthew He's saying About the ministry of Jesus when On he's talking about one particular day. He says that evening when the son was about to set They brought all the sick people to Jesus Those who were demon possessed and he cast out the spirits with a word and he healed all who were sick That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by azir the prophet And he's quoting azir 53 4 But now he's putting it in a different way. Surely he has borne our sicknesses and carried our diseases So Because when you read as a 53 4 it doesn't seem like that, but now he is saying Jesus healed the people And he cast out devils to fulfill Isaiah 53 4 Isaiah is not talking about devils Isaiah 53 4 not talking about devils Matthew is saying He did this he healed and he delivered to fulfill Isaiah 53 4 So then you go back and then you study the Hebrew. Oh, what is the Hebrew saying? Isaiah 53 4 Surely he has Bone our griefs truly Hebrew way And carried our sorrows macope the Hebrew word truly means sickness macope means pain so the Holy Spirit through Matthew is saying hey that actually has to do with healing and deliverance And that is why Jesus is healing and delivering people On the basis of what he's going to do on the cross I understand so The new testament Is explaining further for us What the Holy Spirit was saying through Isaiah the prophet Which may not be very obvious when you just read as a 53 4 But here Matthew 8 16 17 is explaining it. This is what Jesus was doing because of the cross He was delivering people You're stealing people so we can boldly say today healing and deliverance is in the cross of Jesus Christ Because Matthew 8 16 17 explains that so here's one example where the new testament Is opening our eyes to understand better What was given in the old testament? Like this many many examples, right? You read Hebrews Hebrews is like a big Full thesis where he's explaining to us so much from the old testament saying this is what it all means It's a spiritual meaning Of the blood of the covenant of the priesthood All that is explained in Hebrews, but he's basing it on Old testament So a lot of meaning right so The close here The new testament Will help us understand the old testament so much more better So there's a big connection but don't But keep in mind that whatever happened the old testament is literal it happened the way it was written Right don't read too much meaning into the old Other than what the new testament brings out for us Otherwise We will come up with all kinds of strange ideas Right And we'll come up with all kinds of funny teaching So whatever is explained to us in the new testament that you apply to the old testament Don't go beyond that add the things that are not mentioned or given for us That's the key that I want us to keep in mind any questions Let me see what's any questions from the Online students any questions All okay Is it getting heavy or you're fine? all okay getting heavy It's okay. I think we are almost done almost done meaning Now we will start to descend the plane come for the landing. Okay So we went high we covered many things now we'll come and descend bring bring the course to a close so Yeah from next class we will just basically bring all the points that we've shared bring it together Maybe take a few difficult passages Explain those passages and then we will finish the course came So The tough parts are covered Okay, let's pray and close and We will dismiss. Let's pray father. We thank you For things we could learn today And we ask that you will help us Understand these things Keep these things in mind as we read the bible as we study the bible That the holy spirit be our teacher And may he help us that the holy spirit help us To correctly understand to correctly interpret and correctly apply The word of god Thank you father in jesus name Okay, thank you. I will Um So nina's question is there's a lot that has to be kept in mind while interpreting So we will do it right as we go on as we learn Yep, so keep these notes handy. Um As you're studying the scriptures, you know, just use it like a reference and Um, it's you know, as we apply it Or It'll be a useful guide to us To understand Study and understand the scriptures Okay All right. Thank you everyone. I will dismiss today. I'll see you all tomorrow