Incorrect/Correct Doctrine

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14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished. Mt 24

FWIW, I submit this repost concerning 'The Great Commission':

15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned. Mk 16

This is 'the great commission' as some call it, which He gave to ' the eleven' (Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles was absent).

Luke records it this way:

But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Acts 1:8

Take note Christ said, 'ye shall' receive power, 'ye shall' be my witnesses unto the end of the earth. Period. He didn't say I want you to try to do it, He told them that they indeed would do it. Period.

No, that is not true. He said: "You shall be witnesses."
He did not say that their witness throughout the whole world would be accomplished by them. That is reading into the text something that is not there. It never happened. It was an impossible task for eleven men. Besides that there were now 120 waiting in that room in Acts chapter one. That in itself negates the Great Commission being given to just eleven, for 120 were waiting to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

In the very next chapter Luke records (paraphrase mine):

4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit [RECEIVED POWER].......
5 Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven [UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH].
6 .........every man heard them speaking in his own language [WITNESSES OF CHRIST]. Acts 2

Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and sojourners from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God. Acts 2:9-11 [...Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.... Acts 1:8]

What do you think that those 'Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven' in Acts 2 did when they all went back home from the feast of Pentecost, after hearing and believing the gospel and themselves having received power from the Holy Spirit?

You are wrong here also. They never heard the gospel when they heard them speak in foreign languages.

And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (Acts 2:4)
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. (Acts 2:11)
Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God. (Acts 2:11) [ASV]

There is no indication here that they heard the gospel. They spoke in tongues "the mighty works of God." That is not the gospel. They didn't hear the gospel from those that spoke in tongues. They only heard praise to God Almighty.
[/quote]You can bet they didn't keep that 'lamp under the bushel'. No, they 'put it on the stand' so that 'it shined unto all that are in the house'. They preached the gospel in all those nations under heaven that they were from. The day of Pentecost was literally in every sense a 'gospel bomb'. [/quote]
No it wasn't. The only gospel that went forth that day was when Peter preached afterward to a great crowd. Many have preached to great crowds since then as well. What was significant about that day was that from that day forth believers would be indwelt with the Holy Spirit, whereas before that day they were not.

The 'great commission'

as many call it, given to those 'eleven', was accomplished on the day of Pentecost.

What great commission? Peter preaching just one sermon in his own territory is hardly the great commission going out to all the world. Tongues was a sign to the Jews that gospel had now come to the Gentiles as well.
It was a fulfillment of prophecy.

In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. (1 Corinthians 14:21)
Here Paul quotes from Isaiah 28:11,12. The tongues was like a final warning to the Jews. They would here the message of God spoken in other languages besides their own, and by other nations besides their own. When they saw this sign they would know that judgment was near. Still they refused to listen. And judgment came in 70 A.D. This had nothing to do with the Great Commission. Tongues was a sign to the Jews.

Paul verifies this here:

So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. But I say, Did they not hear? Yea, verily, Their sound went out into all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world. Ro 10:17-18

This verifies the unbelief of the Jews. Don't take Scripture out of context. Continue on:

But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. (Romans 10:19-21)

He is speaking about an unbelieving Israel, not the gospel that has gone forth to all the world; not about the Great Commission.

 

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and here:

5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
6 which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as it doth in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
23 if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister. Col 1:23

More Scripture taken out of context. Not even Albert Barnes (himself a Calvinist) would take that same ultra literalist view that you just did:

"Which was preached to every creature which is under heaven." It cannot be supposed that it was literally true that every creature under heaven had actually heard the gospel. But this may mean,

(1.) that it was designed to be preached to every creature, or that the commission to make it known embraced every one, and that, so far as the provisions of the gospel are concerned, it may be said that it was a system proclaimed to all mankind. See Mr 16:15. If a vast army, or the inhabitants of a distant province, were in rebellion against a government, and a proclamation of pardon were issued, it would not be improper to say that it was made to every one of them, though, as a matter of fact, it might not be true that every one in the remote parts of the army or province had actually heard of it.

and here:

Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which hath been kept in silence through times eternal, but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith: Ro 16:25-26

Paul speaks of "my gospel," not that it is any different from the gospel presented in the Scripture, but he is referring to his work in spreading the gospel. He went on three missionary journeys taking him through many nations and through it all established over 100 churches. It is an idiom where all doesn't mean all, but rather his work in "all" the nations that he had been to.

You ever wonder why Peter was called onto the carpet in Acts 11 for preaching to Cornelius, a Gentile? I'll tell you why. Those 'eleven', to whom 'the great commission' as many call it was given, clearly understood that they were still operating under the confines of Mt 10 'Go not into any way of the Gentiles, and enter not into any city of the Samaritans: but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.'

No, that is not true. God had to convince Peter to get rid of his prejudice of other people, Gentile people as being "unclean" just as the meat in the vision was "unclean" to him. He would have to get used to the fact that he would be fellowshipping with Gentiles as well as with Jews, and that they both would be one in Christ.

Why would Christ want them, the eleven, to continue under the dictate of Mt 10 with 'the great commission' as many call it? Because the gospel was to 'the Jew first', and for good reason.

The gospel went to the Jew first because to them was committed the oracles of God or the Word of God. Christ Himself was a Jew.

There was a very serious time line involved for every Jew of 'that generation' alive on the planet. The urgency of the message to the Jew was 'Save yourselves from this crooked generation' (Acts 2), and 'Every soul that shall not hearken to that prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people' (Acts 3).

This crooked generation were those very ones that had crucified Christ. Peter made that very clear:

Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36)

(NET) Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.'
(GW) Those who won't listen to that prophet will be excluded from the people.'
--In Acts 3:23, the idea is that of excommunication. They will be excluded from the people. It is not referring to the destruction of a nation.

Consider what was coming upon 'that generation':

upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. Mt 23:35,36

Matthew 23 was a chapter of condemnation against the scribes and Pharisees of that day. They had kept the knowledge of truth from the common person and they would be judged for it. Take the chapter in the context for what it is written.

God made sure that every Jew on earth was given the chance to 'hearken to that prophet' before the wrath came. All the Jews of that generation on earth heard the gospel, and were given the chance to repent and avoid the wrath and the curses of the OT that were to come on the nation of Israel. Therein lies the fulfillment of 'the great commission' as many call it.

God always gives man a chance to hear the gospel. If your next door neighbor doesn't hear the gospel his blood will be upon your hands and you will be held accountable for his eternal destiny.

Many futurists, especially those of the pre-mil persuasion, totally miss the magnitude of the significance of the events of 'that generation', and woefully misapply passages to the covenant of grace that pertain only to 'that generation'

And many don't. They see a mis-application of Scripture.