Ronald Nolette
Well-Known Member
Let me write this to you for the at least dozenth time. Jews do not get saved apart from trust in christ and becoming part of the church!Right.
But do not make the ,mistake of thinking the Jews still have a special place with God.
you reject the rapture so your eschatology is colored by that belief. but God will save the entire Jewish nation at the end of the tribulation, which amounts to 1/3 that entered into the tribulation!
Paul in Ephesians in talking about Jews and Gentiles did a history lesson and then reminded the gentiles that they have now been made one WITH the saints (Jewish believers)
In the church age, correct as I have told you ad-nauseum. But the NT speaks of more than just the church age. I wish you would see that.Not only does the Bible not teach that there are two distinct peoples of God, ethnic Israel and the gentile Church, but it is very explicitly opposed to this idea. John 10:16, John 17:22-23, Ephesians 4:4-6, Colossians 3:11
You say this because of one use of the word ekklesia in the Septuagint. But you are wrong.For one thing, the Church, defined as the group of true believers of God, existed in the Old Testament, long before the outpouring of the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, Acts 7:38, and furthermore, the clear teaching of the New Testament is that the modern day Church is really just the joining with and the expansion of God's people that He originally chose.
Paul defined who is the church and it is only those who are spirit filled. That did not begin until Pentecost. OT saints had the ON-dwelling of the Spirit, the church has the IN-dwelling of the Spirit. Even Jesus taught this and Jesus called teh church a future thing. He did not tell Peter that He would keep building HIs church or has been building HIs church, but will build- future tense. If you cannot understand basic primary English grammar, how can you hope to rightly divide the word of truth?
God created grammar and will not contradict teh basic rules