Jesus was the last Israelite Prophet. If his message was truly for all the world then he would NEVER have said (even once) that he came only for one group of people. He would have said he had come for the whole world from the moment he started preaching.
Jesus was the last Prophet sent unto the Israelites and after he was denied, Prophethood was shifted to the Ishmaelites.
(Matthew 15:24) He (Jesus) replied, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
(Matt 10:5-6)--- Jesus sent out these 12 after giving them instructions: "Don't take the road leading to other nations, and don't enter any Samaritan town. Instead, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
2007-04-22 11:45:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus did say that He was sent to the house of Israel. That is spiritual Israel, when some rejected Him, salvation came to the gentiles. This goes with Jesus saying " I have other sheep who arent of this fold. them also I must bring." So gentiles who believe are adopted into spiritual Israel.
2007-04-22 11:49:34 · answer #1 · answered by sientje8 s 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus' ministry lasted 3 1/2 years. He was first sent to the lost sheep of Israel to turn them back to God. But they would not listen. The Sanhedrin were fully aware of what Jesus was preaching. Yet they did not want him to mess up the arrangement they had with Rome.
So then they started going to the people of the nations. And there was a dispute among the apostles that they were not to go to Samaritans and people of the nations and Jesus told them who are you to call unclean what I have made clean.
Jesus from that point on accomplished his ministry to take people from all of the nations and teach them about God and his promise of a Kingdom.
2007-04-22 19:23:01 · answer #2 · answered by debbie2243 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was correct that he was sent to Israel and that was who he preached to and he had his entire ministry there. He was not sent to China or Africa. That doesn't mean he was sent for only them, it means he showed the Israelites what God was really all about and it was their job to tell the rest of the world. He came to save everyone but he first commissioned the Jews to tell everyone else about the Gospel. He said one time that he has another fold of sheep that the Jews didn't know about and he was talking about the Gentiles (John 10:16).
2007-04-22 18:59:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the bible is correct. It was always to the Jew first, then the Gentile.
Gentile literally means nation. Jewish Christians at first had trouble accepting Gentiles. However, they learned that Gentiles become a part of God's family just as Jews do; by accepting Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
In the end. we glorified God together. This was God's plan all along. Ya it was.
2007-04-22 19:02:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are all considered to be descendants of the house of Israel from the line of father Abraham and Sarah. The line that is not is of Hagar, which was from Abraham's servant who had Ishmael.
Jesus came for all to have a way to the father. John 3:16. " that whoever believes in him shall not parish but have eternal life." Jews and gentiles alike.
2007-04-22 19:03:46 · answer #5 · answered by Dennis James 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mar 11:32 But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.
John was the last prophet. Christ is the living WORD.
Jhn 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
2007-04-22 19:16:28 · answer #6 · answered by Theophilus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One needs to read the entire bible, not just pull out of it things that back up your own agenda.
Romans tells us that the gospel was given to the gentiles. That until the fulness of the gentiles has come in, many Jews will be blinded to who Jesus is.
Very dangerous, to mis-quote the word of God. I suggest you stop doing it.
2007-04-22 18:50:24 · answer #7 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You only wish..
Now is the time of the Gentiles and will go back to the Jews at the time of the rapture when 144,000 Jewish male virgins will preach the gospel..
2007-04-22 18:51:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus later said, "Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations..."
2007-04-22 18:49:37 · answer #9 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't. It says repeatedly that He came "for all men", or that "all men" may be saved.
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2007-04-22 18:57:34 · answer #10 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋