Les Feldick Bible Study

Why does Les Feldick compare Abraham's servant getting a bride for Isaac to the Holy Spirit calling out the church from the Gentiles?

The servant sent to Syria to find a bride for Isaac illustrates the Holy Spirit's present work of drawing out a bride from among the Gentiles for Christ. Isaac leaving home to meet his bride also pictures Christ leaving heaven to call the church up to meet Him in the air.

Les explains that Abraham sending his servant into a far country, up into Syria, to get a bride for his son Isaac is a beautiful illustration of the Holy Spirit's work in this present age, drawing out or calling out a bride from amongst the Gentiles for the Son, for Christ, the body of Christ. He also notes that when Isaac had left the home tent and was out in the field at some distance from home, he met his bride coming from the far country, which is a picture of how Christ will leave heaven and will call the bride up and will meet him in the clouds of the air. Les further points out that the Old Testament program had no hint of this church age; it only had in mind God's program for Israel.

Genesis 24:1

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.