Four years ago today:
Lisa Page texted: “What are you doing after the CH brief?” CH = “Crossfire Hurricane.”
Actually, the falsely believing Jews (those insisting one needed to be circumcised to be saved, a false "gospel" as per Galatians), trying to be of both camps of believers and the unbelieving among the Jews, are the ones who created the first schism: They went out from us, but were not of us (per 1 John).
Well, correct that Christ Jesus was to be the Passover for men of all nations from the very beginning since the fall of Man. You have that right.
However, in every generation since that Salvation, He has never stopped calling those from among the Jews for whom He died, and whom His Father had given Him (John 6) along with those from among the Gentiles of every nation. Paul spoke of this when he talked about how God's plan for Israel was to carry His Oracles, blinded, which when the time arrived for that last acceptable Passover, the believing among the Jews would preach to Gentiles, and then Gentiles, when they came in, would with them continue preaching the Gospel to all men of every nation, including to the Jews, for they know not which are those men of all nations who are of the Inheritance and which are not.
The Gospel is to be preached to all men (to all nations), however, the Father gave to His Son a certain portion that will be raised on that day (the physical resurrection):
39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” John 6
Every last soul the Father gave to His Son, will be raised up. Now reconcile: Not everyone is saved, but will be cast into the Lake of Fire. It then follows, God did not give every soul to His Son for whom to die and to justify.
However, preachers do not know who these sons of the Inheritance are, so they must and should preach to everyone indiscriminately.
Oh, and I might add, that those who say they are Jews and are not are not simply among the Jewish persuasion. They are also those who, by virtue of claiming the Apostle to the Jews their first Bishop, are also in effect calling themselves "Jews". The Gentiles are of the Apostle to the Gentiles, not of the Apostle of the Jews.
Oh, and I might add, that those who say they are Jews and are not are not simply among the Jewish persuasion. They are also those who, by virtue of claiming the Apostle to the Jews their first Bishop, are also in effect calling themselves "Jews". The Gentiles are of the Apostle to the Gentiles, not of the Apostle of the Jews.