This is not sound doctrine. The mixed multitude that left Egypt with Israel were a small number who agreed to be as Israel and obey their laws.There are not 12 tribes of Israel and then another called the tribe of the mixed multitude. These gentiles were incorporated into the 12 tribes, but Israel never became evangelists to the nations in the OT. God gave Israel gentile lands and many times sent them out to kill gentiles.
And, salvation is a NT doctrine. We are told there is no forgiveness of sins without the shedding of blood. A sinner cannot be saved, as the NT defines salvation, until the blood of the Lamb is shed. This is the only agent that can wash away sin. Israel had a sacrificial system designed by God in the OT where the blood of certain animals was shed and served to reconciled the sinner temporarily, but it could not take away sin. Animals were a fit type of Jesus Christ because they were innocent. They could not sin. Therefore the sacrifice was sinless.
Gentiles had no such sacrificial system and therefore could not approach God in their sins. They never had a blood sacrifice to offer God, until Jesus came and God opened up the door of faith (read Eph 2:10-13 here) to them in Acts 10 and in the year 40 AD when he sent Peter with the keys of the kingdom of God. He had received these keys from Jesus Christ in Matt 16 and it was he that preached the first Christian sermon to the Jews in Acts 2 and to the gentiles in Acts 10, some 10 years later and it was Paul in about AD 44 that explained it as the open door of faith to the gentiles.
Acts 14:26 And thence sailed to Antioch (the sending church), from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.
27 And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and
how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
Wrong. Jesus did not save anyone during his earthly ministry and if the Jews and Romans had been able to keep him in that tomb no one would have ever been saved. Salvation depends on that resurrection.
But you say, what did happen to sinners in the OT times? Men were JUSTIFIED by their faith, not by believing in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, because that was far into the future. So then, faith in what? Faith in God and what he said to them. Romans 3 is the great discourse on justification and Romans 4 illustrates the truth of Ro 3 by giving 3 examples of justifying faith. He gave Abraham as an example before the law of Moses was given, he gave David under the law, and he gave us believers after the law was finished and post resurrection. All men who were justified were justified by believing what God said to them. I can prove this without a shadow of a doubt to someone who believes words as written.
Now, here is as important a statement as there is in the whole bible in this context of justification. Read it carefully.
Romans 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? I
t is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth?
It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Justification of God comes before salvation from sin because God the Father is before Christ in the unfolding drama of redemption. The are certain functions of the Godhead in the salvation of sinners and there is an order to it. God is judge of all the earth and it is he alone who can justify a sinner. Sinners were justified by God for 4000 years before a single one was saved and had their sins washed away. He justifies sinners when they believe what he says to them. It is Christ though who died for sinners and it is he that has dealt with the sin problem that all men have. He paid the penalty for it, which is suffering and death. He shed his blood and emptied himself of his Spirit. After God justifies the sinner on the basis that he believes what the Father says about the Son giving life, the third person of the trinity indwells that justified believer and cleanses him of his sins by applying the blood.
Rev 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
YOU HAD BETTER CHECK. SOME BIBLES DO NOT SAY THIS.
Titus 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he (God) saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
6 Which he (God) shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
7 That being justified by his (God's) grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Justifying faith would not deliver a sinner unless there was a way to separate him from his sins. And there is. It is Jesus Christ, who is the way.
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Because the providence of God had allowed the exaltation of the Greek culture, under which the 10 tribes would be most influenced in the time of Christ tin Asia Minor to bring about the fulfillment of prophecy concerning them. Hosea 1:9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, t
hat in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
In order for a person, any person, to be the son of God, it requires a new birth. Men are not just sons of God by a zap. There cannot be a new birth unless the Spirit of God indwells a man. The Spirit of God cannot indwell a man unless his sin is washed away, and the sin is not forgiven until he is justified by the judge. All things were in place for God to keep his covenant promises to Israel in the first century if they would have believed.
Visitation by other religions is not the definition of "trodden down of the gentiles" in this context.
That is not sound doctrine. That period is in the context of AGES to come.
Ephesians 2:7
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.Jesus Christ brought the dispensation of the law to and end at his dearth, and the age to an end in 70 AD with the dispersion of his people into the nations.See Rom 10:4 and Gal 4:4.
Well, neither did he not say he was going to translate his bible into scores of English translations at the end of the age like you intimate.
Irrelevant mich mash.
That is your mantra but where does God say that? Inquiring minds want to know.
