A follow up on my last post:
Lk 24:44 And he said unto them (two prophets who did not believe the resurrection and was leaving town), These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
These are OT writings. They are written by Jews to Jews. If God writes to gentiles it will be through a Jew. and it will be about them and not necessarily to them. The NT is different in that much of it is new and is written to gentiles with promises to us previously undisclosed. I bring this up to inform of two (2) different divine operative principles that must be noted in the early days of the Christian era, the apostolic era. God is dealing with his people with whom he has made immutable covenant promises concerning land and family and nation and kingdom and a King and the earth and a saviour. So, as one can see in Lk 24:44 above, Jesus coming is peculiarly to these people to whom the promises were made.
So, Acts 1-7 is dealing exclusively to the Jews and their promises. The people through their rulers refused to accept Jesus and his work as the fulfilment of those promises and, long story short, began receiving gentiles to complete his purposes for this age, which is preparing a bride for his son who would become his wife, the national Jewish covenant promises being set aside in this interim because of their unbelief. The transition from the divine principle of promise to the divine principle of grace to accomplish this purpose is a necessity because of a lack of any promises to those who would eventually fill the church, the gentiles, and whose character the body and bride of the church would become.
The Jewish covenant promises remain as sure to be fulfilled as if they had already been. They are everlasting covenants. One must see these transitions to understand the mind and thinking of God. God does not rule the affairs of men in sovereignty, but providentially to accomplish his will.
I doubt I could have ever seen these things without all the verses of Mark 16.
So
Lk 24:44 And he said unto them (two prophets who did not believe the resurrection and was leaving town), These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
These are OT writings. They are written by Jews to Jews. If God writes to gentiles it will be through a Jew. and it will be about them and not necessarily to them. The NT is different in that much of it is new and is written to gentiles with promises to us previously undisclosed. I bring this up to inform of two (2) different divine operative principles that must be noted in the early days of the Christian era, the apostolic era. God is dealing with his people with whom he has made immutable covenant promises concerning land and family and nation and kingdom and a King and the earth and a saviour. So, as one can see in Lk 24:44 above, Jesus coming is peculiarly to these people to whom the promises were made.
So, Acts 1-7 is dealing exclusively to the Jews and their promises. The people through their rulers refused to accept Jesus and his work as the fulfilment of those promises and, long story short, began receiving gentiles to complete his purposes for this age, which is preparing a bride for his son who would become his wife, the national Jewish covenant promises being set aside in this interim because of their unbelief. The transition from the divine principle of promise to the divine principle of grace to accomplish this purpose is a necessity because of a lack of any promises to those who would eventually fill the church, the gentiles, and whose character the body and bride of the church would become.
The Jewish covenant promises remain as sure to be fulfilled as if they had already been. They are everlasting covenants. One must see these transitions to understand the mind and thinking of God. God does not rule the affairs of men in sovereignty, but providentially to accomplish his will.
I doubt I could have ever seen these things without all the verses of Mark 16.
So
