No — the church age is never the subject of prophecy; all true prophecy centers on Israel and is tied to a time frame.
Les Feldick teaches that no prophetic utterance is connected with the church age. Prophecy like Daniel's seventy weeks is directed to Israel with a revealed timetable, but the church age has no designated time and no Scripture by which anyone can calculate the day of Christ's return.
Daniel 9:24 — God delivers prophecy in a definite time frame — 490 years determined on Israel — which is the pattern that does not exist for the church age.
Daniel 9:24 shows that true prophecy operates with both an audience and a time frame: "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy." The audience is Israel, and the period is seventy weeks of years. The Old Testament gives no comparable prophetic word for a church-age body of believers; it never mentions the church as such nor assigns it a timetable. The only prophetic calendar Scripture actually reveals is the one determined upon Israel and Jerusalem.
Les Feldick repeatedly teaches that all true prophecy centers on the nation of Israel and usually appears in a time frame. Daniel 9 is his example: God declares 490 years are determined upon Israel and then gives the details that fill those years. The church age has nothing like that. It has no prophetic utterance, no timetable, and no way to calculate when Christ will return for His Body. Les says anyone who sets a date for the Lord's coming should be marked off as false from day one, because there is nothing in Scripture that gives us the ability to set a date. The church age is a parenthetical, undetermined period slipped into the prophetic program, and not a word is breathed about it in the Old Testament. Once the church age ends, prophecy resumes in a defined time frame when the seven years of tribulation begin.
Les points to Daniel 9 as the pattern of true prophecy: God says 490 years are determined upon the nation of Israel, and then He gives all the details that fill that period. That is prophecy. The church age has nothing like that. God's time clock stopped when Israel lost her temple, her national state, and her sovereign government, and the church age began with no time frame at all.
No. Les teaches that when someone says the Lord will come on such-and-such a day, you can mark that person off as false from day one. There is nothing in Scripture that helps us set a date for the return of Christ for the church. Date-setting would put the church back under prophecy, and the church cannot be placed under prophecy any more than it can be put under law.
Prophecy resumes when the church age ends. The church age is an undetermined period of time; when it ends, the seven years of the tribulation begin, and prophecy is back in a time frame. Les explains that the church is predominantly Gentile and must be removed before God can pick up and begin the tribulation with the nation of Israel.
Les states plainly that not a word is ever breathed throughout the Old Testament about this church age comprised of Gentile believers. There is no prophecy that gives any indication of the church as such. The church is strictly a Pauline revelation, and the Body of Christ is not found back there in the Old Testament.
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No Time Designated for the Church
Les explains that there is no prophecy given to the church, so the church does not know when the Lord will come for her; nothing is designated date or time wise for the church.
No Prophetic Utterance and Date-Setting Is False
Les says there is no prophetic utterance connected with the church age, so anyone setting a date for Christ's return is false; when the church age ends, the seven-year tribulation puts prophecy back in a time frame.
False Teachers Set Dates
Les rejects date-setters as false teachers, since Scripture gives no ability to set a date, and he notes the predominantly Gentile church must be removed before the tribulation.
God's Time Clock Stops for the Church Age
Les teaches that Israel's dispersion stopped God's time clock and the church age has no time frame; Christ's coming is only imminent, never calendarable.
Prophecy Belongs to Israel, Not the Church
Les says no prophecy associates itself with the church; all prophecy is connected to Israel, while the church age is a parenthesis and a Pauline revelation.
The Old Testament Never Mentions the Church
Les says not a word in the Old Testament breathes about a church age comprised of Gentile believers; no prophecy gives any indication of the church.
Daniel's 490 Years Are Prophecy About Israel
Les uses Daniel 9 to show that true prophecy is directed to Israel and is set in a time frame, whereas the church age has nothing like that.
Daniel 9:24: Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
This is the prophetic time frame Les points to: 490 years determined upon Israel, with details filling that period — the opposite of the church age, which has no such timetable.
No. Les Feldick teaches that the church age was never the subject of prophecy and has no time frame. While Israel's prophecy includes a determined 490 years, the church age is an undetermined period of grace.
Les says there is nothing in Scripture that gives us the ability to set a date for Christ's return for the church. Anyone who announces a specific day should be marked off as false from day one.
After the church age ends, the seven years of the tribulation begin and prophecy resumes with a stated time frame. Until then, Christ's return for the church is only imminent, not predictable.
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