JD, to follow your âJews onlyâ theology, only Jews are required to obey God today, and only Jews can be saved today. You are just trying to avoid the obvious truthâthere is no longer Jew or Gentile in Christ. And âfewâ still means âfewâ (Jew OR Gentile). As I said, the many in Revelations is âfewâ compared to all of humanity since A&E. Nice try, but no cigar JD. Donât put your elbow out of joint patting yourself on the back. J Izzy
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So, while we are proof-texting like a drunken sailor, we might consider this: Jesus lived and died as the the King of the ......................................... JEWS. His lineage was ..............................Jewish. He was killed by the ............................. Jews. The church was EXCLUSIVELY ................................ JEWISH THROUGH ACTS 7. All of his immediate disciples were .............................................Jews. Everyone in the upper room (both occasions) were .................................Jewish. The expansion of the ministry (to the Gentiles) is first given to Peter in a vision sometime after the cross. When Jesus sends his 12 out on mission, they are sent to the .......................Jews and "not to the Gentiles ) Matt 10:5,6. In Matt 15:24, Christ tells us that His mission is to the .............................................Jews and not to anyone else." Why? How can this be? Because of John 4:7 -- "salvation is of the Jews."
When Christ speaks of the "few there be" who will accept the salvation offered to them, He is speaking to the Jews and of the Jews. Does He intend to included all of mankind? Absolutely -- and He does. But there is a politic to this inclusion that began with Adam and came down to the world through Israel. The picture of the uncountable multitudes in Rev. 7 is a blessed hope for us all ........................ and is UNDENIABLE, folks (in a meaningful sense of the word.)
I should get three points for this slam dunk !!!!
Pastor Smithson
Izzy, you must have stopped reading before you got to the John 4:7 part. Oh, you forgot the first part of the post -- the part that uses scripture to establish that Jesus' earthly ministry was to Israel. uuuuhhhh ----------------- that is pretty much the entire email. I think that one of these days, I will send you a case of fresh towels !!! :-)
Jd
