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Let us look at this verse:
"Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church (ekklesia) daily such as should be saved" (Acts 2:47).
The Greek word translated "church" is ekklesia and that word can be found in the Greek version of the Old Testament (the LXX). Alfred Edersheim, a Jewish convert to Christianity and a respected Bible scholar, wrote the following:
"Nor would the term 'Church' sound strange in Jewish ears. The same Greek word (ekklesia), as the equivalent of the Hebrew 'Qahal,' 'convocation,' 'the called,' occurs in the LXX. rendering of the Old Testament, and in 'the Wisdom of the Son of Sirach' and was apparently in familiar use at that time. In Hebrew use it referred to Israel, not in their national but in their religious unity" [emphasis added] (Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah [Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. M. Eerdmans Publishing 1971] Book 3, Chapter 37, p.84).
According to Edersheim the Greek word translated "church" was in familiar use and "it referred to Israel...in their religious unity."
Next, let us look at the events here which were in regard to the ekklesia of Acts 2:
"For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams" (Acts 2:16-17).
The following prophecy was totally in regard to the religious unity of Israel and Israel alone:
"Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: Gather the people, sanctify the congregation (ekklesia) , assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts...And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions" (Joel 2:16,27-28).
So the ekklesia mentioned at Acts 2:47 is referring to Israel in her religious unity and it is not referring to the Body of Christ.
The Church of Acts ch 2 is the beginning members of the body of Christ--
Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Joh 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Joh 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Joh 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Joh 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Joh 14:22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
Joh 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Joh 14:24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
Joh 14:25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Joh 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Joh 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
Joh 14:29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
The pre Pentecost church is comprised of Israelites for certain. They had to wait for the Spirit.
The distinguishing between the boc and Israel is evident... plus... it is still inside the camp of Israel. Hebrews 13:13
It is only until new planting occurs outside Israel that the full age of Gentiles begin. There is a handing over from Jews to Gentiles.... the sever is clere.
Plus ..Acts 11:26 is where the word Christian is discussed.
The only sever that is clear is just as already mentioned to Jerry previously herein, that is, yourselves cutting yourselves off from the Root. There is no "handing over from Jews to Gentiles" written anywhere. And as for your understanding of "outside the camp" it is a misunderstanding because it speaks of the Mishkan. Moshe placed the Mishkan-Tabernacle outside the camp and the Tabernacle is a large portion of the topic in the epistle to the Hebrews because it represents the body-temple-tabernacle of the testimony. Likewise nowhere does Paul say or even suggest that anyone gets to join the community and commonwealth of the all Yisrael of the Father and yet get to remain a Gentile. The point is to become circumcised, (in heart), and not to stay uncircumcised, (sorry but that simply does not just happen with the so-called "sinners prayer", it rather is a long walk after the fact, a walk of faith looking forward to the promise for which you were sealed from when you first believed). When you are circumcised in heart then you are no longer of the "uncircumcision", and then you begin to be weaned from the milk of the Word, coming into the knowledge and understanding of the meat of the Word. There are not going to be Canaanites or heathen in the house of Elohim, (this is all clearly symbolism), but your mind and mindset must become renewed, changed, altered away from the physical and natural minded man into the supernal and spiritual minded man in Messiah. See Matthew 15:24 and understand it within its surrounding context for the very first example of a Canaanite being grafted into Yisrael by faith. When you indeed become a son there shall no more be a Canaanite in the house of YHWH Tsabaoth, (Zechariah 14:21), and you are that house because every person is a house-temple of the Creator. This is not replacement theology but simply just the way it has always been and always will be. The holy seed line has been SPIRIT from the time of Enosh, son of Seth, and continues that way all the way through.
The only sever that is clear is just as already mentioned to Jerry previously herein, that is, yourselves cutting yourselves off from the Root. There is no "handing over from Jews to Gentiles" written anywhere. And as for your understanding of "outside the camp" it is a misunderstanding because it speaks of the Mishkan. Moshe placed the Mishkan-Tabernacle outside this e camp and the Tabernacle is a large portion of the topic in the epistle to the Hebrews because it represents the body-temple-tabernacle of the testimony. Likewise nowhere does Paul say or even suggest that anyone gets to join the community and commonwealth of the all Yisrael of the Father and yet get to remain a Gentile. The point is to become circumcised, (in heart), and not to stay uncircumcised, (sorry but that simply does not just happen with the so-called "sinners prayer", it rather is a long walk after the fact, a walk of faith looking forward to the promise for which you were sealed from when you first believed). When you are circumcised in heart then you are no longer of the "uncircumcision", and then you begin to be weaned from the milk of the Word, coming into the knowledge and understanding of the meat of the Word. There are not going to be Canaanites or heathen in the house of Elohim, (this is all clearly symbolism), but your mind and mindset must become renewed, changed, altered away from the physical and natural minded man into the supernal and spiritual minded man in Messiah. See Matthew 15:24 and understand it within its surrounding context for the very first example of a Canaanite being grafted into Yisrael by faith. When you indeed become a son there shall no more be a Canaanite in the house of YHWH Tsabaoth, (Zechariah 14:21), and you are that house because every person is a house-temple of the Creator. This is not replacement theology but simply just the way it has always been and always will be. The holy seed line has been SPIRIT from the time of Enosh, son of Seth, and continues that way all the way through.
Please check my work and correct me if I'm wrong at any point.
Jacob and 12 Sons... Jesus and 12 Disciples
Jesus is the true Tabernacle of YHWH and this is your theological error.
Jews are the Muscle of God... Christ Followers are the Spiritually purchased of God. He needs both bodies for His full purpose and final "Revelation".
You cannot see this because you don't fully understand the division of the covenants.
Shall we continue?
Wrong . . . :Nineveh:
Exodus 25:1-9
1 And YHWH spoke unto Mosheh, saying:
2 Speak unto bnei Yisrael, that they bring Me an offering: of every one that gives it willingly with his heart shall you take My offering.
3 And this is the offering which you shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass:
4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goat hair:
5 and ram skins dyed red, and tachash skins, and acacia wood:
6 oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense:
7 shoham stones, and stones for setting for an ephod, and for a breastplate.
8 And let them make Me a miqdash-sanctuary so that I may dwell among them:
9 according to all that I show you, after the pattern of the Mishkan-Tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall you make it.
You either do it or you do not and this is no different from the Testimony of Yeshua who clearly teaches that every individual is a house and the same which Paul teaches how you are the miqdash-body-temple of Elohim. We are admonished to pattern our own little miqdash-chapel-temple after the pattern of the greater Mishkan-Tabernacle with all its vessels. This no doubt means that all such things are supernal in meaning. For the same reasons above, Exodus 25:8-9, HaNavi Ezekiel a son of Man writes the following:
Ezekiel 11:14-20
14 Again the Word of YHWH came unto me, saying:
15 Son of man, your brethren, even your brethren the men of your kindred and all the house of Yisrael, all of them are they unto whom the inhabitants of Yerushalem have said, "Get you far from YHWH: unto us is this erets-land given in possession!"
16 Therefore say, Thus says Adonai YHWH: Although I have cast them far off among the gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the aretsot-lands, yet will I be to them as a little miqdash-sanctuary-chapel in the aretsot-countries where they shall go.
17 Therefore say, Thus says Adonai YHWH: I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the aretsot-lands where you have been scattered, and I will give you the adamah-soil of Yisrael.
18 And they shall enter therein, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof, and all the abominations thereof from that place.
19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new Spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in My statutes, and keep My ordinances, and do them: and they shall be My people, and I will be their Elohim.
The new Spirit is the Testimony of Yeshua which is the Spirit of the Renewed Covenant.
Sorry for your luck but there is no such thing as a "house of the Gentiles" . . .
Wrong . . . :Nineveh:
Exodus 25:1-9
1 And YHWH spoke unto Mosheh, saying:
2 Speak unto bnei Yisrael, that they bring Me an offering: of every one that gives it willingly with his heart shall you take My offering.
3 And this is the offering which you shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass:
4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goat hair:
5 and ram skins dyed red, and tachash skins, and acacia wood:
6 oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense:
7 shoham stones, and stones for setting for an ephod, and for a breastplate.
8 And let them make Me a miqdash-sanctuary so that I may dwell among them:
9 according to all that I show you, after the pattern of the Mishkan-Tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall you make it.
You either do it or you do not and this is no different from the Testimony of Yeshua who clearly teaches that every individual is a house and the same which Paul teaches how you are the miqdash-body-temple of Elohim. We are admonished to pattern our own little miqdash-chapel-temple after the pattern of the greater Mishkan-Tabernacle with all its vessels. This no doubt means that all such things are supernal in meaning. For the same reasons above, Exodus 25:8-9, HaNavi Ezekiel a son of Man writes the following:
Ezekiel 11:14-20
14 Again the Word of YHWH came unto me, saying:
15 Son of man, your brethren, even your brethren the men of your kindred and all the house of Yisrael, all of them are they unto whom the inhabitants of Yerushalem have said, "Get you far from YHWH: unto us is this erets-land given in possession!"
16 Therefore say, Thus says Adonai YHWH: Although I have cast them far off among the gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the aretsot-lands, yet will I be to them as a little miqdash-sanctuary-chapel in the aretsot-lands where they shall go.
17 Therefore say, Thus says Adonai YHWH: I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the aretsot-lands where you have been scattered, and I will give you the adamah-soil of Yisrael.
18 And they shall enter therein, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof, and all the abominations thereof from that place.
19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new Spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in My statutes, and keep My ordinances, and do them: and they shall be My people, and I will be their Elohim.
The new Spirit is the Testimony of Yeshua which is the Spirit of the Renewed Covenant.
Sorry for your luck but there is no such thing as a "house of the Gentiles" . . .
Daqq,
I'm off for the night... but... so it begins.
So where do you find the scripture authority to separate and divide the body of Messiah from the great congregation of all Israel? Do you not believe that Messiah is the Messiah of Israel? Do you not know that Moshe was Kohen Gadol after the order of Melki-Tzedek above Ahron? Yhoshua was the next in line, (not a Levite), for he was placed BEFORE Eleazar and the whole congregation. Thus the Tanach "body of the saints" was the "body of Moses" while the new covenant "body of the saints" is the "body of Messiah" and the Tanach "body of Moses" was folded into the "body of Messiah" at Golgotha, (Matthew 27:52-53). Your doctrine is cutting you off from the Root.
Here is some more copy and paste for you:
Isaiah 40:1-3 KJV
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God [Matthew 3:3, Mark 1:3, Luke 3:4].
Can you see now? Warmongers and fleshmongers will never see it.
No matter how many times you copy and paste it . . . :chuckle:
Is your head the Father, Daqq?
So where do you find the scripture authority to separate and divide the body of Messiah from the great congregation of all Israel?
The Apostle Paul states in no uncertain terms that it is through Israel's fall that salvation has come to the Gentiles:
"I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?" (Ro.11:11-12).
The pre Pentecost church is comprised of Israelites for certain. They had to wait for the Spirit.
The distinguishing between the boc and Israel is evident... plus... it is still inside the camp of Israel. Hebrews 13:13
It is only until new planting occurs outside Israel that the full age of Gentiles begin. There is a handing over from Jews to Gentiles.... the sever is clere.
Plus ..Acts 11:26 is where the word Christian is discussed.
No, Paul does not say that, but rather your favorite English translation says that. He just said let it not be that they should have stumbled to the point of being fallen: how then do you and yours say that they are fallen? It does not say that but rather it says by their transgression:
λεγω ουν μη επταισαν ινα πεσωσιν μη γενοιτο αλλα τω αυτων παραπτωματι η σωτηρια τοις εθνεσιν εις το παραζηλωσαι αυτους
"I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? Let it not be so! but rather, by their sideslip-transgression, (παραπτωματι), deliverance unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy."
Thus you and like minded thinkers have this false imagery of an Israel having totally fallen while you yourselves have "taken over" for the last two thousand years. Then I suppose you will be "raptured" out of here at the end of the "Gentile age of grace" just before a pre-mid-post whatever seven more years of "the Law" and a literal physical world Armageddon tribulation against "the Jews" where a literal physical Rev 9 one third of mankind dies and the other two thirds do not repent; and then, after the entire planet is literally physically destroyed, you fully expect to come back in spiritual glorified flesh and rule over a physical world dominating global empire for a thousand Reich from Jerusalem where everyone on earth will be forced to believe exactly what you believe now. And that is supposed to be pro-Israel? :rotfl:
And what on earth would that have to do with Abel? :dizzy:
No, Paul does not say that, but rather your favorite English translation says that. He just said let it not be that they should have stumbled to the point of being fallen: how then do you and yours say that they are fallen?