I should make up a "Theology Quiz" for this forum:
Here's an example question:
1) Matt. 1:21 reads, "You shall call his name Jesus, because...":
a) "He shall OFFER salvation to His people";
b) "He shall OFFER salvation to everyone";
c) "He shall TRY to save His people from their sins";
d) "He shall TRY to save everyone from their sins";
e) "He SHALL save HIS PEOPLE from their sins."
Context is our friend. You are not under consideration in that passage of scripture whether you are saved or lost. John 1:11 says "He (Jesus) came unto his own, and his own received him not." His own in John 1 and his people in Matt 1 are the same people. It is his kinsmen, Judah and Israel. It is the physical seed of Abraham in these passages. A cursory reading of the text will tell you that.
Do you believe he will be able to get the job done? He is God, you know, the God Man. He says he can do it and that he will do it. Watch what the great apostle Paul said about 28 years later after his own people had rejected him as the person he claimed to be in the same way many of you fellows are rejecting his claims.
Rom 11: 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.
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Using reason and common logic consider who his people are identified as being. Read it. Take your time. Is there any possible way that his people can be considered to be Israel', the seed of Abraham?
On you E) from your list above, does that passage say he shall save "
only" his people from their sins? Of course not, but it definitely says he will save his people from their sins. Did it say when he will save his people from their sins? No, it did not say that either, but we know that his prophets says when he will save his people from their sins. Check it out here.
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25 For I would not, brethren, that
ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 26 And
so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written,
Okay, here it is lest you be ignorant. It is stated plainly but it is stated plainly for the believers of the words of scriptures. I do not think that is you.
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here shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Two things he says will happen before his people are saved.
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until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in
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here shall come out of Sion the Deliverer,
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Reason and logic again please. If the Deliverer is going to come out of Zion, which is defined in other places as being in Jerusalem, then it is a sure bet that he must come to Zion first since we are told he is presently seated at the right hand of God in heaven. He is not in Zion today.
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Here is something you need to see after Jesus ascended to heaven after he rose from the dead. His apostles said he told them this and they are repeating it to Israel only about them only.
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you
(Israelites) in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
The Spirit given to them is salvation when they
recieve him. He was offering to save them at that time. Look at the next sermon to Israel only;
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Acts 3:3
The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; 15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. 16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. 17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. 18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. 19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23 And it shall come to pass (
in the future),
that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
All who are left will be saved and those who would not hear and believe will be destroyed, so says the word of God.
24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. 25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
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Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away
every one of you from his iniquities.
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I am charging that you men do not believe a single word in scripture that is not sifted through the Calvinist system and your doctrines are illogical and unreasonable and untrue and are not taught by the Spirit of Christ. There is still time to repent.
I will end this post with this statement from Jesus Christ, the Son of God, about his earthly ministry;
Matt 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
His ministry to the world, he said, will be post resurrection and in the Spirit;
20 And there were certain
Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: 21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. 22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. 23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.