Let me see if your exposition flies. Those "appointed" in verse 47...is the word appointed to be taken the same was as you say it is in verse 48? If so why hasn't every jew brought the Gospel to the Gentiles? My brother in law is a jew...and he rejects the Gospel. According to your hermeneutic, God's decree has failed.
God's decree is unfolding perfectly. I do not have the false idea ,that ALL jews, or ALL gentiles...means every single person without exception.
Not all israel is of israel.....Paul always speaks of the OT believers as an ELECT remnant....The Servant of the Lord....Isa 40-54...particularly brings all things to gether.
Not every Jew in Israel gets saved. Not every gentile in the world gets saved.
The text is very clear......AS Many As were ordained.....as many does not mean all persons......
32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
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For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
WebDog.....Paul by the Spirit is quoting from Isa 49;1-8...The Servant of the Lord gathering All,ie, jew and gentile into one new man...gentiles come to the light....not all gentiles.....many of them...
That is what Jn 12 is speaking of....
not the jew only...I will draw all men to me.....gentiles included.
48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
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But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
