James’ audience was EVERYWHERE in the known earth. The world wide network of synagogues was why the gospel spread so rapidly throughout ‘every nation under creation’.
Where do think the term ‘Wanderng Jew’
came from?
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Where Did the Mailman Drop the Letter of James,
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James’ audience was EVERYWHERE in the known earth. The world wide network of synagogues was why the gospel spread so rapidly throughout ‘every nation under creation’.
Where do think the term ‘Wanderng Jew’
came from?
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Really Martin? IMO some "scholar" who has an undeserved reputation of knowing what he is talking about has told you that and you have believed him. Remember that the letter to the Galatian churches was written because of the controversy created by the Judaizers, a sect of Jewish Christians, who taught these churches that faith in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ was not enough to be saved but the believer must also believe and obey certain elements of the Mosaic law to be saved, such as circumcision. Remember who these people are. Many, if not most of them are the physical seed of Abraham through Jacob. They are strangers and pilgrims who are out of their homeland. Notice how the Lord through the Jewish authors address them:
1 Pe 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 Peter 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you;
James1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
1 Jn 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Whoever the little children are they are distinguished from the whole world. Remember that Paul and all the apostles agreed that Paul and Barnabas would go to the gentiles and John and the apostles would go to the circumcision. I am sure you would agree that these little children are the circumcision to whom he and the other apostles went and these are letters he writes back to them.
Since we can determine these people are largely the 10 tribes of Israel who were cut off from God in BC 722 by dispersion by Assyria then it becomes easier to set the context of why Paul referred to these people as the "Israel of God" in his letter to the Galatians. In the flesh they are all the seed of Abraham but in that condition they were cut off and not God's people because of their rebellion against him but now those who have believed the gospel of Christ and have received his promised Spirit are the "sons of God" by the new birth. This is the fulfilment of the promise in Hosea 1. That promise said they will be called the sons of the living God. They have a relationship once again with God.
Jude salutation puts him in that same group writing to those same people. You can't miss this.
Hebrews. Wonders of wonders! there were Hebrews in the world when this epistle was written but almost no one in Christendom acknowledges it. This letter did not go to Jerusalem and Judaea. The gospel seed did not produce there. This letter went to Asia Minor, to the circumcision where they were warned not to turn back to the weak and beggarly elements because there would be no place for repentance if they did. Alas, they did. They turned back and there are only a handful of Jewish Christians today.
Then we have hope. The Revelation is written to these same people where God has promised to baptize them in the fire of the great tribulation and purify them as silver is refined and bring them out perfect and rule in righteousness over them.
4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia (the Province, not the continent): Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; The true believers in the churches will be taken to heaven before the tribulation of the last week of Daniel, which is the same and equal with the furnace of God.
Concerning no Jew or gentile etc and your contention that there are none in the church, after you have tried to convince us that all are Jews, Israel.
Galatians was written in AD 49, the first letter Paul wrote to the churches. Ga 3:28-29 contains this quote. However Paul wrote Romans in AD 58, nine years later and said this:
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Paul is saying he is an Israelite, a son of Abraham, and of the tribe of Benjamin. He is living proof that God has not cast this family away and replaced them with someone else. He has just broken some of the branches off for a purpose and add some others in during "this present time."
Ro 11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Not all Israel rejected Jesus Christ. These are the remnant.
Give some thought to these truths please. God is all wise in all his works. Praise his name, he will include whosoever will believe him. All of us needs to believe him while the door is open. It will not always be.
Really Martin? IMO some "scholar" who has an undeserved reputation of knowing what he is talking about has told you that and you have believed him. Remember that the letter to the Galatian churches was written because of the controversy created by the Judaizers, a sect of Jewish Christians, who taught these churches that faith in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ was not enough to be saved but the believer must also believe and obey certain elements of the Mosaic law to be saved, such as circumcision. Remember who these people are. Many, if not most of them are the physical seed of Abraham through Jacob. They are strangers and pilgrims who are out of their homeland. Notice how the Lord through the Jewish authors address them:
1 Pe 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 Peter 3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you;
James1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
1 Jn 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Whoever the little children are they are distinguished from the whole world. Remember that Paul and all the apostles agreed that Paul and Barnabas would go to the gentiles and John and the apostles would go to the circumcision. I am sure you would agree that these little children are the circumcision to whom he and the other apostles went and these are letters he writes back to them.
Since we can determine these people are largely the 10 tribes of Israel who were cut off from God in BC 722 by dispersion by Assyria then it becomes easier to set the context of why Paul referred to these people as the "Israel of God" in his letter to the Galatians. In the flesh they are all the seed of Abraham but in that condition they were cut off and not God's people because of their rebellion against him but now those who have believed the gospel of Christ and have received his promised Spirit are the "sons of God" by the new birth. This is the fulfilment of the promise in Hosea 1. That promise said they will be called the sons of the living God. They have a relationship once again with God.
Jude salutation puts him in that same group writing to those same people. You can't miss this.
Hebrews. Wonders of wonders! there were Hebrews in the world when this epistle was written but almost no one in Christendom acknowledges it. This letter did not go to Jerusalem and Judaea. The gospel seed did not produce there. This letter went to Asia Minor, to the circumcision where they were warned not to turn back to the weak and beggarly elements because there would be no place for repentance if they did. Alas, they did. They turned back and there are only a handful of Jewish Christians today.
Then we have hope. The Revelation is written to these same people where God has promised to baptize them in the fire of the great tribulation and purify them as silver is refined and bring them out perfect and rule in righteousness over them.
4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia (the Province, not the continent): Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; The true believers in the churches will be taken to heaven before the tribulation of the last week of Daniel, which is the same and equal with the furnace of God.
Concerning no Jew or gentile etc and your contention that there are none in the church, after you have tried to convince us that all are Jews, Israel.
Galatians was written in AD 49, the first letter Paul wrote to the churches. Ga 3:28-29 contains this quote. However Paul wrote Romans in AD 58, nine years later and said this:
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Paul is saying he is an Israelite, a son of Abraham, and of the tribe of Benjamin. He is living proof that God has not cast this family away and replaced them with someone else. He has just broken some of the branches off for a purpose and add some others in during "this present time."
Ro 11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Not all Israel rejected Jesus Christ. These are the remnant.
Give some thought to these truths please. God is all wise in all his works. Praise his name, he will include whosoever will believe him. All of us needs to believe him while the door is open. It will not always be.