What did Les teach about Bernard Baruch in his lesson on Genesis 18?
Bernard Baruch is presented in the Genesis 18 lesson as a Jewish advisor who served many U.S. presidents and administrations from around World War I, illustrating Abraham's descendants blessing the nations. The greater point is that God's promise to Abraham looks beyond politics and economics to salvation through Jesus, who was born a Jew.
Les explains that Bernard Baruch was a Jew through and through who, from Les’s high school days onward, went through president after president and was kept as an advisor by almost every administration from about World War I onward. Les uses him, along with similar figures in European governments, as evidence that some great men were direct descendants of Abraham. He says this shows the Word of God is not stretching the point when it promises that all nations of the earth will be blessed in Abraham. Yet Les stresses that God looks beyond politics and economics to the salvation He would bring through the Lord Jesus, who was born a Jew, foretelling what God would do down through the ages of time.