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16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
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Who did Christ come to? He came to the Jews first. But for the most part they rejected him. Only 120 stayed faithful. They were to spread his message through out the world. We see Him tell the Apostles this in Acts 1. After Pentecost and the infilling of the Holy Spirit they began to go out, and it changed the world. The message then went to the Gentiles. We see this in Pauls journeys.
Look at the verses in Romans
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.â€
â€â€Romans‬ â€1:16‬ â€NKJV‬‬
….“tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God.â€
â€â€Romans‬ â€2:9-11‬ â€NKJV‬‬
That word for Greek is obviously translated as “Greek†but it is also used to basically mean any Non Jew, or Gentiles. As most of us are.
We know that the plan was always to save the whole world…
God was going to use the Gentiles to make the Jewish people jealous
“But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: “I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.â€â€
â€â€Romans‬ â€10:19‬ â€NKJV‬‬
“I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.â€
â€â€Romans‬ â€11:11‬ â€NKJV‬‬
Now in Ephesians (read all of Chapter 2) we see that He makes One New Man out of both.
“For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.â€
â€â€Ephesians‬ â€2:14-18‬ â€NKJV‬‬
So Jew First, then the Gentiles, but both into the kingdom.
This is why Replacement theology is so wrong. The church has not, will not replace the Jewish people as that would make God break His own covenant which He cannot do. He will and is using the the church to make Israel jealous so they will turn back to Him and He then will have One New Man, The two become One in Christ.
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Btw way, that “middle wall of separation†is referring to a place on the temple where Gentiles were not allowed to pass. Paul is saying that is broken, now all are welcome
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Wow, thank you Orbit!
Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State...
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